Try sudo apt-get install wallpaper-tray On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 00:41 -0600, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote: > 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. :) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
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