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Re: Terminal background picture

on 29/4/04 9:44 pm, David A. Cox at email@hidden wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to script terminal to change the background
> picture of a specific terminal window?
>
> I can change the background color via a script, but I can't seem to do
> anything with a picture.
>
> I could swap a picture into a known location, so that when a terminal
> window launched it would get that new picture.
>
> But I don't know how to update or change a picture once it is loaded into
> a terminal window.
>
> I can't use the UI scripting for this, as I want the window and terminal
> to stay in the background....

I presume you'd just need to set the string for the "BackgroundImagePath" of
the Terminal .plist?

The fact that this is probably missing from the Terminal AS dictionary
doesn't surprise me - why on earth would you want a picture behind the
Terminal window?

--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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