I find a nice script from to rotate my wallpaper over time (GNOME). Just follow this tutorial:
- Make sure you have all dependencies
sudo apt-get install libgnomevfs2-dev build-essential
- Download source code from here
- Compile source code
gcc -Wall -o change-bg `pkg-config --cflags --libs gnome-vfs-2.0 gconf-2.0` change-bg.c
- Place all of your backgrounds in one folder
- Get into terminal and type:
./change-bg [seconds] [location of wallpapers]
For example:
./change-bg 10 /home/sUpricak3p/background
- You can run this script from Run Application (press Alt+F2) and type
./change-bg [seconds] [location of wallpapers]
- You can add this script at your startup by following this menu:
System -> Preferences -> Sessions [Startup Programs] [Add] . . .
Have fun…
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Doesn’t seem to work — program compiled and it runs, but the background image doesn’t change. I made sure to change the permissions to make all of the pictures readable, but they still don’t change.
Any clues?
Okay, got it to work, but is there any way to get it to randomly draw pictures? As it is it starts in one directory and always starts there, so I see the same images each time. Other than that, it’s pretty cool.
Hi kuriharu, You should try WP Tray to rotate your wallpaper. Download from here: http://wildbill.nulldevice.net/ubuntu/wp-tray_0.4.6-1_i386.deb
and install to your Ubuntu with:
sudo dpkg -i wp-tray_0.4.6-1_i386.deb
Gud lak
Thanks! They’ve made it Ubuntu compatible. I tried it before but w/ Ubuntu you couldn’t choose a directory. Looks like it works now.
Thanks for the update!
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