06-12-2006
... well, if you right-click on your desktop and don't see the "set a wallpaper" option, you can't do it that way.
That has nothing to do with unix, but what GUI you use. Off hand, Gnome does it.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
anypaper
ANYPAPER(1) General Commands Manual ANYPAPER(1)
NAME
anypaper - front-end for wallpapersetter
SYNOPSIS
anypaper [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
anypaper is a program that let you: Preview of selected image. Six modes of setting wallpaper (fullscreen, normal, tiled, adjusted, scaled
and custom scale). User can select the background color, image position, wallpapersetter and screen size. Preview of background before
setting no-set option for only handling images (command line)
HELP OPTIONS
-?, --help
Show help options.
--help-all
Show all help options.
APPLICATION OPTIONS
--license
Display license information and exit
-v --version
Display version information and exit
-f --fullscreen
Set fullscreen position
-n --normal
Set normal position
-t --tile
Set tile position
-m --maximize
Set maximize position
-s --scale
Set scale position
-c --custom
Set custom scale position
-S --set
Set wallpaper configuration or command line configuration
-l --last
Set the last wallpaper
-x --x-position
Set x position of wallpaper
-y --y-position
Set y position of wallpaper
--x-scale
Set x scale of wallpaper
--y-scale
Set x scale of wallpaper
-h --height
Set x position of wallpaper
-w --width
Set y position of wallpaper
-b --background
Set background color
--no-set
Disable setting function
-p --lastwallpaperfile
lastwallpaper file (default: ~/.anypaper/lastwallpaper)
--rc resource file (default: ~/.anypaper/anypaperrc)
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
SEE ALSO
http://anypaper.sourceforge.net.
AUTHOR
anypaper was written by Sergio Rodrigues de OLiveira Filho <cdvdt@users.sourceforge.net> .
This manual page was written by Alejandro Garrido Mota <garridomota@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
May 10, 2009 ANYPAPER(1)