How to switch backgrounds automatically

[mahorrocks]

I have been looking around and came across a nice idea in Mandriva.

Can Ubuntu have its background switching every hour and if so, how?

Also how do I turn of my touchpad everytime my mouse goes into the laptop??

Thanks

Mark

(I have Ubuntu 9.10)

[hariks0]

Install wallpaper-tray. Or try wallpapoz.

[kadok0520]

I have been looking around and came across a nice idea in Mandriva.

Can Ubuntu have its background switching every hour and if so, how?

Also how do I turn of my touchpad everytime my mouse goes into the laptop??

Thanks

Mark

(I have Ubuntu 9.10)

try to see my blog article

http://kadok0520.pixnet.net/blog/post/25520798

it written by english and chinese.

[mahorrocks]

Seen that but what about Desktop Drapes, any way of making that startup with the ubuntu?

[falconindy]

A lightweight solution would be to use 'feh' with a cronjob. Select a file at random from a directory by doing something such as:

#!/bin/sh
WP="/path/to/wallpapers"
feh --bg-scale "$WP/`ls '$WP' | sort -r | tail -1`"
Save it, make it executable, and then set that in your crontab as:

30 * * * * /path/to/script.sh > /dev/null