There is presently no way to programmatically set the wallpaper in KDE. This prevents things like `variety` from dynamically modifying it, and image views like `gwenview` from having a "Set as wallpaper` option - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170124 - http://peterlevi.com/variety/2014/05/variety-and-kde/ The previous dcop system used to have a method to set the wallpaper, but the dbus interface for `org.kde.PlasmaShell` does not. Methods to set, and possibly get, the current wallpaper (or filename) would be quite helpful. Reproducible: Always
Dublicate of the Bug 217950 - Ability to set desktop wallpaper via a dbus command : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217950
(In reply to edA-qa mort-ora-y from comment #0) > There is presently no way to programmatically set the wallpaper in KDE. This > prevents things like `variety` from dynamically modifying it, and image > views like `gwenview` from having a "Set as wallpaper` option > - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170124 > - http://peterlevi.com/variety/2014/05/variety-and-kde/ > > The previous dcop system used to have a method to set the wallpaper, but the > dbus interface for `org.kde.PlasmaShell` does not. Methods to set, and > possibly get, the current wallpaper (or filename) would be quite helpful. > > Reproducible: Always Plasma 4: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ksetwallpaper/ Plasma 5: An example - https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?66762-Right-click-wallpaper-changer&p=387392&viewfull=1#post387392
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 217950 ***