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tharpa
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Wallpaper Changer

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Anybody out there have a wallpaper changer that works on Salix Mate?
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zAchAry
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Re: Wallpaper Changer

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Try Viewnior > Preferences > General > Desktop: GNOME2. Maybe Nitrogen would work.
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tharpa
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Re: Wallpaper Changer

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zAchAry wrote:Try Viewnior > Preferences > General > Desktop: GNOME2. Maybe Nitrogen would work.
Thanks, Zach, but Viewnior is a picture viewer, not a wallpaper changer. Nitrogen appears to be completely obsolete: all it does is set one background at a time. You can do this on any OS or any distro with a desktop by right-clicking on the desktop and going to Change Desktop Background (or similar). (And it doesn't even do that for me!) What I'm looking for is a background changer that will change backgrounds selecting randomly from a directory every so often. As far as I can tell, all of the modern background changers will also automatically download pictures, if you wish, from sites like Flickr, but I'd settle for one that didn't.
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Re: Wallpaper Changer

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There should be a wallpaper changer of MATE which should be accessible via context-menu of desktop (right-click on desktop), but I do not know what its command.

If you want me to try to guess the relevant command, please open a terminal, enter mate-, then click on <TAB> key and post the list here.
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Re: Wallpaper Changer

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tharpa wrote:You can do this on any OS or any distro with a desktop by right-clicking on the desktop and going to Change Desktop Background (or similar).... What I'm looking for is a background changer that will change backgrounds selecting randomly from a directory every so often.
zAchAry wrote:There should be a wallpaper changer of MATE which should be accessible via context-menu of desktop (right-click on desktop)
Yes, I know that. What I'm looking for is a background changer that will change backgrounds selecting randomly from a directory every so often. I guess I'll have to write some sort of script.
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gapan
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Re: Wallpaper Changer

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If I tell you that you can change the wallpaper with this command:

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gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename /path/to/wallpaper.jpg
can you make a wallpaper changer on your own? ;)

HINT: Take a look here and adjust accordingly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5550 ... -wallpaper
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Re: Wallpaper Changer

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gapan wrote:If I tell you that you can change the wallpaper with this command:

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gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename /path/to/wallpaper.jpg
can you make a wallpaper changer on your own? ;)

HINT: Take a look here and adjust accordingly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5550 ... -wallpaper
Hey, I got someone who actually read what I wrote before responding! :) Thanks.
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