I think it would be cool to have like a small button on the upper panel so that i can make it iterate again more immediately. you know what I'm saying? like I could just click that button and it would switch to the next desktop?
cool idea huh. :) let me know what you think On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Kenneth Adam Miller < [email protected]> wrote: > ever wanted ubuntu to have that nice ability to change wallpapers every now > and then? I wrote a script just for that and I'm going to tell you about it > so that you can make it do exactly what you want too! > it's easy. just place a command to ubuntu start up the script to start up > the wallpapers.sh script in the background. Ubuntu's script that you can > edit that's executed every time you log in is ~/.profile > (I've tried using ~/.bash_profile and i haven't been able to get it to > execute. if you find that you can make an alternative to ~/.profile like > ~/.bash_profile or something and get it to execute on start up, let me > know.) > > anyway, save the script that I have included and place this in the > ~/.profile > > if [ -f <locationofscript>/wallpaper.sh ]; > then > <location of script>/wallpaper.sh -t TIME -s SETTING > LOCATIONSWHERETOLOADWALLPAPERS & > fi > > this will check to make sure that the file wallpaper.sh exists, and then it > will execute it in the background. you can add as many locations as you > want, make sure to quote them correctly. if you don't specify TIME it will > default to 300. TIME is the argument that tells the script how many seconds > to wait between changing wallpapers. so 300 means 5 mins of course. To > quickly check that it works use -t 1 so that it changes every second. > > the -s option is for setting. it is applied in the command that sets the > current picture that it's on within the folder(s) you specified to be the > desktop background. There are 4 options: > stretched, centered, scaled, and wallpaper. to understand this, just go to > set your background using the usual themes gui and look at the bottom left. > you'll see a little drop bar with these four options. that's what they have > to do with. be sure and SPELL THE SETTING RIGHT when you enter the command > or it will fail. > > Any time you need to add a wallpaper to the lineup, just drop it into one > of the directories that you specified in the ~/.profile and it will be used > next time you run the wallpapers.sh script. you will need to kill the > current running script in order to make the wallpaper.sh script load > correctly. > > A good option to pass it is /usr/share/backgrounds and > /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos, which is the location of the default > backgrounds provided with ubuntu. it's really easy, i don't think you could > mess this one up. just make sure you get the quoting right; > wallpaper.sh "location1" "location2" ... on and on :) > > remember this about the script and where you specify your wallpapers as the > argument to it; > THE PICTURES MUST BE ABLE TO FIT THE SETTING YOU SPECIFY so that when it is > applied to the desktop, it looks right. so keep all of the > > Let me know if you have any trouble, i will try and do what i can to help > you. :) > >
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