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How can I programatically change the background in Mac OS X?
Hi,
I've whipped together a small (in this case python, but the language is not important) script which gets a jpg from a webpage and sets it as the current background image in OSX (testing and coding on 10.6.3).
My question is how to effectuate the setting of the background image.
My current approach involves regex replacing the paths in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist and then restarting (killing) Finder.app.
The last part does not work, as restarting finder, by killing it, doesn't reset/re-initializes the plist.
Do anyone have a better idea, or if there's any kind of signal (i.e. from terminal) I can use? Any idea is greatly appreciated.
- Chuck