[oe] meta-xfce: how to change the default background?

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:26 PM, California Sullivan
<californialsullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When building an image and using the xfce package, I would like to be able
> to set a custom default background (i.e., before the image is ever booted
> up).
>
> I have been unable to find any documentation on how to do this, and I
> haven't found any clues by poking around in the layer.
>
> Any pointers from somebody with experience in this area, or any links to
> documentation on how this could be done would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Cal Sullivan
Hi Cal,

This setting is found in
<userhome>/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml
entry 'image-path'.

If you want you can look into my meta-misc [1]:

* a default config installing into /etc/skel
* operator-user getting the settings from /etc/skel on creation

note that this solution does not work for upgrades. For this you need
some magic in pkg_postinst copying changes from /etc/skel to user's
home.

Hope it helps...

Andreas

[1] https://gitorious.org/schnitzeltony-oe-meta/meta-misc/source/024201b0b256338df4460c39447e9660e16872a0:recipes-setup