Rotate My Wallpaper Over Time

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

Compile source code

gcc -Wall -o change-bg `pkg-config
--cflags --libs gnome-vfs-2.0 gconf-2.0` change-bg.c

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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April 15th, 2006 4 Comments Tutorial, Ubuntu

1 kuriharu on Oct 10th, 2006 said:

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?
2 kuriharu on Oct 12th, 2006 said:

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.
3 supriyadisw on Oct 12th, 2006 said:

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
4 kuriharu on Oct 23rd, 2006 said:

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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