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Virtual OS using same Wallpaper as Host
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Greetings, I'm running a guest Linux OS on top of Windows XP, which rotates its wallpapers using the PowerToy Wallpaper Changer. I'm hoping for a way for my guest OS to somehow detect which wallpaper the host is using, and automatically switch to it. Why? Because if I run my guest OS in seamless mo…
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This question will end needing programming. You can start listening to Desktop Settings changes, when a new setting is applied grab the current path to wallpaper from registry and "signal" to some app. Thats a example I made and tested against Micro…
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