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Set desktop wallpaper in Plasma5 via a dbus command
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qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell org.kde.PlasmaShell.evaluateScript 'var allDesktops = desktops(); for (i = 0; i < allDesktops.length; i++) {d = allDesktops[i]; d.wallpaperPlugin = "org.kde.image";d.currentConfigGroup = Array("Wallpaper", "org.kde.image", "General"); d.writeConfig("Image", "file:///path/to/image.png")}'
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It works on KDE 5.9.3. Thanks for sharing!

I have a wallpaper application for KDE which use this code. https://github.com/guoyunhe/unwallpaper

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ghost commented Dec 19, 2017

This still works on KDE Plasma 5.11.4. The background slideshow function on KDE is currently bugged (huge CPU usage after enabling it) so I made my own slideshow python program to change it using your script. https://i.imgur.com/JFBzaHf.png Thanks very much mamantoha, you saved me a lot of hassle.

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This still works with Plasma 5.27.0 🤩

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