That's OK -- better to have good ideas repeated than have them languish because they were never brought up for fear of duplicates :) On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 01:47:00AM -0600, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote: > hmm does it do the same thing? crap. i didn't know about that > and i already posted stuff on the brainstorming channel. i wish i knew > about that. > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Shaun Marolf <[1][email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > <[2][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 [3][email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > [4][email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > [5]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [6][email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [7][email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [8]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. mailto:[email protected] > 5. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 6. mailto:[email protected] > 7. mailto:[email protected] > 8. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
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