Hi there,

I have installed Wally background changer on a couple of my PC's running Natty.
After a bit of f*nnying around with the unity whitelists and the wally.desktop file (as per advice on the software manager reviews) I had it working fine on login.
However for both PC's its now bombing out. If I start it manually I get a segmentation fault.

When I run in debug mode the app bombs out after counting the number of pics it has in its vault. So I suspect I have too many. A reinstall does not clear this cache.
So where are the pics stored? If I can clear them I can choose my settings a little better.

Cheers.

Hello meggiedude,

I can't believe that the reason for a segmentation-fault can be that you have to much pictures. Don't get me wrong, it is (theoretically) possible (I don't know this program) that it doesn't work properly due to too much pics. But a segmentation-fault is a failure within the program itself and something completely different.

In order to find out where the pictures are stored you may use the commandline. Open a terminal and within your homefolder execute the following commandNote that this will only work if the pics are really in jpg format, if not, change the command. For the grep-command use the filename for one of your pictures. In the output of the command you will see the path to the pictures.

Hope that helps.

Markus

I believe that wally does not work well with natty.

You should try desktopnova.

Thanks for the advice gents.

I will have a look at NetPix and desktopnova.

Just a quick update to say I have had a modicum of success/luck here with the wally setup on both PC's with this running.
I was fortunate on occasion to catch the wally program before it bombed out. Normally the utility automatically cycles to the next pic as soon as it initiates after login. At this point you've had it. However fortunately yesterday it didn't and I was able to get into the settings menu.
I had the program only randomly selecting pics from the panoramio option (a segment of the scottish highlands by coordinates). I changed this to only use Flickr images and its working again, for how long I don't know.
So my recommendation at this point is not to use panoramio with wally.
At this point I still haven't worked out where it caches the pic it downloads - but I'm working on that.

Cheers

Simon

P.S. I'll mark this as solved for now - but may have to re-open if it becomes a problem again.