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Set your wallpaper to a symlink
Simple shell script for setting this link to a random image in a directory
Cron job to call this script every X minutes ;)
Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility I have a really large and nice collection of wallpapers. I want a script/utility which can automatically choose a random wallpaper from a folder and make it my wallpaper. I use KDE in PCLinuxOS.
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Re: Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility HACK:
Set your wallpaper to a symlink
Simple shell script for setting this link to a random image in a directory
Cron job to call this script every X minutes ;)
Re: Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility Ok, made a symlink for my wallpaper directory. Now what?
Found a shell script here
automatic background changer - Ubuntu Forums
But this is for GNOME.
Last edited by Apoorv Khatreja; January 23rd, 2008 at 02:49 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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Re: Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility Waiting for somebody to write that shell script for me.
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Re: Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility a lot of tools exist in windows for this... linux. i thought kde was so overloaded with features that it should have been present already.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post1036171
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Re: Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility Heh. Found it myself about an hour ago. Is IBF horribly slow for other MTNL guys too?
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Re: Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility You can also use this method. Place your wallpaper as mywall.jpeg in your system wallpaper directory. try this script( assume you have 1500 wallpapers collection otherwise change the number) . This is just an idea. Obviuosly you need to modify this to suit your needs.
#!/bin/bash
DIRWALL="wallpaper collection directry"
DIRSYS="system wallpaper direcory"
A=`date +%s`
RAN=`expr \( $A % 1500 \) + 1`
cd $DIRWALL
TMPWL=`ls -A | cat -n| awk -v RAN1=$RAN '{if ($1 == RAN1) print $2}'`
cp -af $TMPWL $DIRSYS/mywall.jpeg
Last edited by firearm12; January 26th, 2008 at 04:21 AM.
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Re: Automatic wallpaper change tool/script/utility I did a search with apt and found these many softwares for wallpaper changer in Gnome
Wallpaper-tray
wallpaper changing utility for GNOME
This utility sits in your GNOME Panel Notification Area. It sets a random
wallpaper from a list of directories either at login, on a regular basis
or on demand.
Homepage: .: planetearthworm :. - bringing down the black vale
Drapes:
a desktop wallpaper management application for the GNOME desktop
The aim of drapes is to complete (or replace) the built-in GNOME desktop
wallpapers selection tool. It can be configured as a tray application or as a
panel applet. The bigest selling point of drapes is the ability to rotate
wallpapers on a timely basis. It strives to be as simple as possible and
fits in the rest of the GNOME 2 desktop.
Project Homepage: Desktop drapes: GNOME wallpaper manager
http://getgnulinux.org
"faithfreedom" -google for that.
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