Checking whether a script can open a display?

[Fraser Campbell]

On March 1, 2005 09:10 pm, William O'Higgins wrote:

> >What window manager do you run?  I suspect many wm have the capability to
> >rotate backdrops at set intervals (kde's wm does).
>
> I run OpenBox, and as far as I know they don't build that in, because
> there are many "right" ways to do it, and because it is not (as they
> (and I)) define it the window manager's job.  KDE is attempting to be
> all things to all people, and so that is built in.

Then why not just call your script within your X startup?  The script can 
sleep for however long you want to keep the same backdrop and then change it, 
repeat in an infinite loop.

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