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    Wallpaper program

    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.

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    Last edited by DoctorMO; August 19th, 2008 at 02:58 AM.
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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    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.
    Last edited by Old Pink; October 26th, 2006 at 10:31 PM.

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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    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.

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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

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

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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    Quote Originally Posted by darkhatter View Post
    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.

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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    Add Remove programs and add Schedula it's a nice cron editing program and add my program to run every minute.
    42 is not an anwser, it's an error code. the universe is saying 'Error 42: meaning to universe not found'
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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    Quote Originally Posted by Brunellus View Post
    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

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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    Quote Originally Posted by darkhatter View Post
    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.

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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    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.
    42 is not an anwser, it's an error code. the universe is saying 'Error 42: meaning to universe not found'
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    Re: Wallpaper pogram

    ok

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