Feeling festive, I downloaded xsnow to see snow on my desktop. I put a button on my Gnome panel that starts a simple script to start xsnow if it's not running, and stop it if it is running. I also found in the readme that xsnow isn't visible if a desktop environment has control of the desktop (except as an option in KDE), and since I'm running Gnome I added lines in the script to have gconftool-2 set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop to false when starting xsnow, and to true when stopping it.
The script works well enough for starting xsnow, but when I hit the button again to stop it, the snow stops but my desktop icons don't come back. If I check the xml file in ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences, the show_desktop line is set to "true" as it should be. Also, if I start up gtweakui, it shows that Nautilus has control of the desktop. I can uncheck that option, and then recheck it, and the desktop icons come back. How can I get that from the command line, so that my script will work the way I want?
The script works well enough for starting xsnow, but when I hit the button again to stop it, the snow stops but my desktop icons don't come back. If I check the xml file in ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences, the show_desktop line is set to "true" as it should be. Also, if I start up gtweakui, it shows that Nautilus has control of the desktop. I can uncheck that option, and then recheck it, and the desktop icons come back. How can I get that from the command line, so that my script will work the way I want?
