Random GDM theme

Posted by vms@mymail.ro on 2003-08-13 21:06:12

Here is a little BASH script that changes the GDM theme with a random one (of course with one from the /usr/share/gdm/themes - so you should keep only the themes you like). You can put it for example in /etc/cron.daily

Enjoy

(!! the last two lines are in fact a single one but ...)

#!/bin/bash

THEME_DIR=/usr/share/gdm/themes
THEMES=`ls -1 "$THEME_DIR"`
N=`echo $THEMES | wc -w`
((N=RANDOM%N))
cp /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.old
sed {s/GraphicalTheme=.*/GraphicalTheme=`echo $THEMES | cut -d ' ' -f $N`/} 
etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.old > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf