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Create a Custom Transitioning Background for Your Gnome 2.28 Desktop

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 5, 2009

“By examining how the Cosmos slide-show works, I figured out how
to create my own custom slide-show backgrounds. Read on and find
out to create your own custom desktop background. Creating a Custom
XML File for Your Backgrounds

“Gnome uses an XML file to contain the configuration information
necessary to run the backgrounds as a slide-show. The “Cosmos” XML
file can be found at /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/background-1.xml
and contains all of the information that Gnome requires.

“Here is what it looks like:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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