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Plasma 5 Desktop Scripting: Change Wallpaper in InteractiveConsole
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plasma5-change-wallpaper.js
for (i in activities()) {
activityID = activities()[i];
desktops = desktopsForActivity(activityID)
for (j in desktops) {
desktop = desktops[j];
desktop.wallpaperPlugin = "org.kde.image";
desktop.wallpaperMode = "Scaled and Cropped";
desktop.currentConfigGroup = new Array("Wallpaper", "org.kde.image", "General");
desktop.writeConfig("Image", "file:///home/zhou/Pictures/Bing/AlpineLarches_ZH-CN10557456981_1920x1200.jpg");
}
}
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the latest plasma5 is activity based, so the old "desktop()" function will get nothing. you should get activities first to get the available desktops. tested on plasma 5.20.2
reference: https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/PlasmaTwoDesktopScripting

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