Wallpaper Changer for Xubuntu ?

[Rodney9]

In Xubuntu 11.10 I have tried 'desktop nova' plus 'wallch', but neither work, they run but the wallpaper does not change.

Any clues ? or other way to change the wallpaper periodically in Xubuntu ?

[gsmanners]

There's an amusing thread on that subject: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23156

[Rodney9]

Fixed Desktop Nova by adding the xfce module, thanks to Computer Bob at http://www.computerbob.com/wp/fixing...-6021-xfce.php

[gsmanners]

I see. Package bug. Interesting.

A few seconds of detective work in the Synaptic package manager revealed the answer: Debian Squeeze Xfce had installed DesktopNova, but it had incorrectly installed only the desktopnova-module-gnome module package, which DesktopNova doesn’t use in Xfce, instead of the desktopnova-module-xfce module package that DesktopNova requires in order to work in Xfce.

I confirmed the problem by completely uninstalling and then reinstalling DesktopNova one more time.

And again, it incorrectly installed the Gnome module instead of the required Xfce module.

So I uninstalled the Gnome module, installed the Xfce module, and (in DesktopNova’s settings) selected the Xfce (xconf) 0.2 module.

Then I clicked on the button to restart the DesktopNova daemon.

And suddenly, the default Debian Xfce desktop wallpaper was gone and I was looking at a beautiful photo from my folder of desktop wallpapers.

[stevehanler]

I use Wally. Instructions for using it in xfce4 are here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Qd3zW0sk4