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    Lightbulb Better Wallpaper Switcher

    After downloading so many awesome backgrounds here, I decided I needed to switch between them hourly. I found a shell script to do it on Michel's page but it gave me errors occasionally and only scanned one directory, so i wrote a new one in Python. I figured someone else might find it useful, so here it is.
    (To make it run hourly, run "crontab -e" and put "01 * * * * python /path/to/ranwp.py" on a new line in it, then save)

    http://divmod.org/users/washort/ranwp.py

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    Quote Originally Posted by dash
    After downloading so many awesome backgrounds here, I decided I needed to switch between them hourly. I found a shell script to do it on Michel's page but it gave me errors occasionally and only scanned one directory, so i wrote a new one in Python. I figured someone else might find it useful, so here it is.
    (To make it run hourly, run "crontab -e" and put "01 * * * * python /path/to/ranwp.py" on a new line in it, then save)

    http://divmod.org/users/washort/ranwp.py
    Oh wow! I can't wait to try this! I have tons of great ubuntu wallpapers I want to switch between often! Thank you so much!
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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    Quote Originally Posted by dash
    After downloading so many awesome backgrounds here, I decided I needed to switch between them hourly. I found a shell script to do it on Michel's page but it gave me errors occasionally and only scanned one directory, so i wrote a new one in Python. I figured someone else might find it useful, so here it is.
    (To make it run hourly, run "crontab -e" and put "01 * * * * python /path/to/ranwp.py" on a new line in it, then save)

    http://divmod.org/users/washort/ranwp.py
    quite useful. as kassetra i have a lot of cool wallpapers and i'm unable to choose beetwen them

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    hi, is there any way to get this script to work in xfce?

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    Sweet work dash - thanks much. Is better than the other scripts found on the forums. I did have to figure out the "no gconf module" error - I put the Ubuntu server edition on board and built up X, etc. from there. All was needed to add is python-gconf and away we go! Thanks again.

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    Sorry I'm a n00b how do I use this?

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    You should follow the instructions "dash" posted,
    "To make it run hourly, run "crontab -e" and put "01 * * * * python /path/to/ranwp.py" on a new line in it, then save".

    If there are other questions you have, and I'll guess at some here, please say so.

    Here are the steps I undertook to make it work:

    1) edited ranwp.py for my system. Read it to see how I changed the path:

    #!/usr/bin/env python

    BACKGROUND_DIRS = ['/home/cmo/Multimedia/wallpapers/']

    2) made a text file I called cron.txt by doing in a terminal

    touch cron.txt

    vim cron.txt (use your favorite editor)

    I entered this to the text file:

    # change wallpaper interval
    */10 * * * * python /home/cmo/Multimedia/wallpapers/ranwp.py

    and I saved it.

    3) I put ranwp.py in /home/cmo/Multimedia/wallpapers/

    4) Again in a terminal:

    crontab cron.txt

    crontab -l (to check it).

    5) Found I had to add python-gconf to the system and did so. How did I discover that? I read the local system mail I set up to alert me. That mail listed the error.

    6) I continue to enjoy "dash"'s work <g>.

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    Hey blacktop would you be able to pm me or msg me on aim at hawks864 and possibly help me out with this?

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    titan3169, I'll do PM.

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    Re: Better Wallpaper Switcher

    Thanks! This helped a lot!

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