Hi !
I’m running this old machine, which serves only one purpose: displaying a
monitoring web page. I would like to display a second page and alternate
between them every 30 sec or so.
The machine is running an openSUSE 10.x release, I think, with KDE 3.x. I’m
having to change it soon, so using a more recent openSUSE with KDE 4.x is no
problem.
My idea was to open a Firefox with one page on desktop 1, and another
with the second page on desktop 2. And I’d like to find a way to run a bash
script to alternate between them.
Is there a command line instruction for changing to a certain desktop?
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Need a dbus call…
qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.nextDesktop
As for the other bit guess you looking at a while loop/daemon but seems a little hackish. I’d perhaps try to arrange it via inotify and watch a folder for changes if it could be applicable.
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Rikishi,
If you have control over the HTML output by the pages, you could imbed a “Refresh” header in them to swap to the other one every n seconds.
On 2010-05-25, FeatherMonkey <FeatherMonkey@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Need a dbus call…
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> Code:
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> qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.nextDesktop
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That works perfectly, thanks a lot!
> As for the other bit guess you looking at a while loop/daemon but seems
> a little hackish. I’d perhaps try to arrange it via inotify and watch a
> folder for changes if it could be applicable.
The loop is not a problem, just an infinite bash loop with a sleep in it.
Thanks again!
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On 2010-05-26, antttikutoja <antttikutoja@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> If you have control over the HTML output by the pages, you could imbed
> a “Refresh” header in them to swap to the other one every n seconds.
Nope, no control over them. They evencome from 2 different servers, and one
of the pages requires authentication.
But I’ve pretty much got things going. Even made it look cute, by activating
the cube animation for the desktop switch. 
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