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DarkpawT 02-03-2010 07:49 PM
random desktop background in Gnome
 
Running Fedora Core 12, and Gnome for desktop manager. Is there a way to set a random background to change at a given interval? Say, any picture in a given directory, every hour.

Everything I can see about it just says to write a script to change it. That may be great for a programmer, but I can't do that. :)

Any info would be appreciated...

raju.mopidevi 02-03-2010 08:17 PM
I am using KDE, by default KDE allows me to change my desktop backgrounds with a time interval i have choosen.

rightclick on desktop -> desktop configuration -> wall paper -> "select slideshow" -> browse for the folder which contains your wall paper -> click OK. .....

DarkpawT 02-03-2010 08:31 PM
KDE vs. Gnome
 
That's in KDE. How do I do it in Gnome?

DarkpawT 02-04-2010 09:38 PM
Nobody? Bueller....Bueller....? :) I don't want to switch to KDE just for this ability.

DavidMcCann 02-05-2010 05:19 PM
Have a look at this (I haven't tried it yet):
http://linux.wareseeker.com/Desktop-...1.3.zip/315606

catkin 02-05-2010 10:20 PM
Wallpaper Tray.

Here are notes of installing 0.4.6 on ubuntu 8.04 on 2 Nov 08

Code:
1.apt-get install wallpaper-tray
2.ln -s /usr/share/gnome/apps/Applications/wp_tray.desktop /usr/share/applications/ 
3.Configured ~./wallpapers as wallpaper directory
4.Set change to 120 mins.
5.Gnome Control Centre, Personal, Sessions, Add
        Name:  Start Wallpaper Tray
        Command:  /usr/bin/wallpaper-tray
        Comment:  Starts Wallpaper Tray
No record of where steps 3 and 4 were done.

I didn't like Wallpaper Tray sitting in the Notification Area. Found it does not from version 5. Could not find a 5.x ubuntu package. Downloaded 5.5 source tarball but too many missing dependencies. Checked in case they are ready (with apt-show-versions -u) but not.

It's so much easier in Xfce which does not require any extra packages!

DarkpawT 02-09-2010 07:29 PM
The ChangeWallpaper1.3 looked promising, but the "free" version apparently only grabs images from art.gnome.org, rather than my own shots.

I'm using Fedora (Core 12), so the Ubuntu package won't work. That program wasn't listed in the Fedora sources, so it looks like it's a Debian-only package.

Thanks for the suggestions, though. It was worth a shot. I guess I'll have to switch to KDE.

catkin 02-09-2010 11:13 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkpawT (Post 3858439)
I'm using Fedora (Core 12), so the Ubuntu package won't work. That program wasn't listed in the Fedora sources, so it looks like it's a Debian-only package.
Look here; there seem to be quite a few wallpapertray packages for Fedora.


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