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More Solutions for Auto-Switching Linux Wallpaper

lifehacker.com — Earlier this week, we showed you how to auto-change desktop backgrounds in Ubuntu using a small script and a scheduling tool. Turns out a good number of our commenters were already hip to dynamic, time-tracking wallpaper, and have found easier, more full-featured means of keeping their desktops fresh—and using some pretty cool backgrounds as well.

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  • brisbin33, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1i fell in love with changing desktops on my mac (i get sick of pictures quickly). on linux the best way i found was a cron job (google it). there are a ton of complicated background changing scripts that cron can run on a set interval but mine was just one line:
    feh --bg-scale -r /path/to/wallpapers
    picked a random image from the path and made it the background. easy as that.

    the transition was too harsh for me though (no smooth fading like on my mac); so i dropped the project.
  • digitaldivinci, on 08/20/2008, -1/+2Really..is it that big of a deal? I used the same wallpaper for a solid year. Maybe it's different when you make your own, but I don't get tired of them very fast.

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