some tool for "automagically" change wallpaper

Xavius · 01-03-2005, 09:47 AM

Surely it's exist.

Do you know some tool for change the desktop wallpaper in KDE automatically (for example every 30 mins or at every login, etc) ?

I know it's not "useful" but..... sometimes It can be nice

thanks!

P.S. I seen something like this in gnome, but I don't remember the name

Proud · 01-03-2005, 09:53 AM

You mean like the slide show button in the KDE Background preferences?

Xavius · 01-03-2005, 10:13 AM

....................
sometimes, using the computer we are more used to english / specific words than the localized ones...........

in my linux "slideshow" is translated so I hadn't noticed it at all!

thanks and sorry for bother you

Proud · 01-03-2005, 10:39 AM

It's not a bug it's a feature

Nah that's cool, valid question.

Xavius · 01-03-2005, 11:55 AM

I know it's not a bug.... of course

Zyrix · 01-03-2005, 12:00 PM

Ok, i'll turn this into a more valid question

... is there a desktop changer you can use in Fluxbox?

All i could find was how to set it one time:

Quote:

1.5.1 Setting Styles and Backgrounds
Selecting a Style (theme) is done by right-clicking the desktop. Menu -> Fluxbox -> Styles
and also under Menu -> Fluxbox -> User Styles
System styles are kept in /usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles as default. The path must be readable by non-root users to be accessed, or copy them to ~/.fluxbox/styles.

To change the background, a few commands are available. I use fbsetbg. The syntax is:
fbsetbg [ -fFcCtTaA /path/to/wallpaper ] [-l] [-h] [-d] [-p]

-f Set fullscreen wallpaper
-c Set centered wallpaper
-t Set tiles wallpaper
-a Set maximized wallpaper, preserving aspect.
-l Set previous wallpaper
-d debug
-p Tips

It makes a file ~/.fluxbox/lastwallpaper for use with the -l option.

adriaanbw · 01-03-2005, 07:17 PM

Zyrix,

I am not sure if its compatible with Fluxbox but you could try GKrellM with the gkrellmbgchg plug-in.

I am not sure if you have heard of it before, but GKrellM can do a lot of other things such as report CPU, HDD, memory usage, uptime etc etc.

Hope this helps!

cs-cam · 01-03-2005, 07:39 PM

Did you have a look at fbsetbg -h? Run fbsetbg -i, if it says it's using anything other than feh then install feh. Then use fbsetbg -r /path/to/wallpaper_dir and it'll set a random bg every login