Set the Desktop Background

by Paul Thompson on Mar 23rd, 2009

This is a simple program and all it does is fiddle with the registry and set the value of the desktop background to be the bmp file that you supply in the function. There are other things you can do with the windows registry, this is just one of the easy things that demonstrates how it all works.

Enjoy

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import win32api, win32con, win32gui
 
def setBackground(image):
    key = win32api.RegOpenKeyEx(win32con.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,"Control Panel\\Desktop",0,win32con.KEY_SET_VALUE)
    win32api.RegSetValueEx(key, "WallpaperStyle", 0, win32con.REG_SZ,"0")
    win32api.RegSetValueEx(key, "TileWallpaper", 0, win32con.REG_SZ,"0")
    win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, image, 1+2)

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Mar 30th, 2009

Re: Set the Desktop Background

It would be nice if you explained the code above rather than just plopping it down on the page.

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