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Re: desktop picture


  • Subject: Re: desktop picture
  • From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:59:17 +0000

Martin Orpen wrote on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:25:33 +0000:

>set foo to (path to library folder as string) & "Desktop
>Pictures:Abstract:"
>tell application "Finder"
>	set bar to files of (foo as alias)
>	repeat with n in items of bar
>		set desktop picture to n
>		delay 3
>	end repeat
>end tell

Is there a reliable way to _get_ the current desktop picture?

  tell application "Finder" to get desktop picture

... always returns the same file from my Desktop Pictures collection,
regardless of what's actually on screen. (My system's set up to choose a
random picture on log-in.)

NG

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