Wallpaper program

[DoctorMO]

OK, ATTENTION! There is a new app I made which is much better than this. see here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5581392

So please ignore this hacky script and use the app.

I've written this small python program which picks out a random background from your list of gnome backgrounds; including all it's settings (colours, options, transparency etc) and sets it as the current settings.

I've done this for a friend of mine who wanted a KDE like wallpaper option, I've created this as an icon and as a per hour using the Schedual program.

all good fun. send patches if you like.

(see attached)

[Old Pink]

Get in in the repositories!

Good application.

HINT: Extract this to your home directory, and add /home/user/changer to your startup session to have a random wallpaper selected at startup.

[Martin1]

I am the friend and this is a great add on everyone should have lets see it on the updates and included in the Ubuntu instalation. Incidentally see my new thread for comments on screen savers.

[darkhatter]

will this change my wallpaper every minute or so like it does in kde?

[Brunellus]

Originally Posted by darkhatter will this change my wallpaper every minute or so like it does in kde?

I imagine it Kan. I doubt that KDE users will Kondescend to Kast even an eye in its direKtion.

[DoctorMO]

Add Remove programs and add Schedula it's a nice cron editing program and add my program to run every minute.

[darkhatter]

Originally Posted by Brunellus I imagine it Kan. I doubt that KDE users will Kondescend to Kast even an eye in its direKtion.

I wasn't trying to start flamewar or anything I wanted to know if the feature was there

[Brunellus]

Originally Posted by darkhatter I wasn't trying to start flamewar or anything I wanted to know if the feature was there

My K-posts are all facetious. don't worry. I just love poKing fun at the KDE naming Konventions. (There I go again!). It's just easy, since the K phoneme is a lot more common than the G one.

[DoctorMO]

There was no point in adding a timing feature... it would be like adding wheels to a tomato, very time consumming and utterly pointless.

Use cron that what it's there for.

[darkhatter]

ok