Command to download tons of gnome wallpapers
Yes , it is true you can download tons of gnome wallpapers with a command . As you know even though gnome-look.org has a large collection of wallpapers , it doesnot make it easy to download a lot of stuff . So how we can do it ? download with ftp .Here is a complete step by step procedure to download gnome images .
1. Fire up your terminal and make a directory .
$ mkdir wallpapers
2 . Connect to ftp.gnome.org
$ ftp ftp.gnome.org
3. You need to enter the username and password , ”anonymous” will be your default username and there needs no password .
4.Explore the contents of the server
$ cd /pub/GNOME/teams/art.gnome.org/backgrounds
5. Now , we need to turn off the prompt mode .
$ prompt off .
5. Now we can download all the stuff of your resolution with mget providing your resolution . Here i assume your resolution to be 800 *600.
$ mget *800*600.jpg
You have started downloading .Feel free to post your comments .
February 1st, 2010 at 9:17 am
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