For anyone that uses ubuntu and wants an automated wallpaper script

[Kenneth Adam Miller]

I think it would be cool to have like a small button on the upper panel so
that i can make it iterate again more immediately. you know what I'm saying?
like I could just click that button and it would switch to the next desktop?

cool idea huh. :) let me know what you think

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Kenneth Adam Miller <
kennethadammiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> ever wanted ubuntu to have that nice ability to change wallpapers every now
> and then? I wrote a script just for that and I'm going to tell you about it
> so that you can make it do exactly what you want too!
> it's easy. just place a command to ubuntu start up the script to start up
> the wallpapers.sh script in the background. Ubuntu's script that you can
> edit that's executed every time you log in is ~/.profile
> (I've tried using ~/.bash_profile and i haven't been able to get it to
> execute. if you find that you can make an alternative to ~/.profile like
> ~/.bash_profile or something and get it to execute on start up, let me
> know.)
>
> anyway, save the script that I have included and place this in the
> ~/.profile
>
> if [ -f <locationofscript>/wallpaper.sh ];
> then
> <location of script>/wallpaper.sh -t TIME -s SETTING
> LOCATIONSWHERETOLOADWALLPAPERS &
> fi
>
> this will check to make sure that the file wallpaper.sh exists, and then it
> will execute it in the background. you can add as many locations as you
> want, make sure to quote them correctly. if you don't specify TIME it will
> default to 300. TIME is the argument that tells the script how many seconds
> to wait between changing wallpapers. so 300 means 5 mins of course. To
> quickly check that it works use -t 1 so that it changes every second.
>
> the -s option is for setting. it is applied in the command that sets the
> current picture that it's on within the folder(s) you specified to be the
> desktop background. There are 4 options:
> stretched, centered, scaled, and wallpaper. to understand this, just go to
> set your background using the usual themes gui and look at the bottom left.
> you'll see a little drop bar with these four options. that's what they have
> to do with. be sure and SPELL THE SETTING RIGHT when you enter the command
> or it will fail.
>
> Any time you need to add a wallpaper to the lineup, just drop it into one
> of the directories that you specified in the ~/.profile and it will be used
> next time you run the wallpapers.sh script. you will need to kill the
> current running script in order to make the wallpaper.sh script load
> correctly.
>
> A good option to pass it is /usr/share/backgrounds and
> /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos, which is the location of the default
> backgrounds provided with ubuntu. it's really easy, i don't think you could
> mess this one up. just make sure you get the quoting right;
> wallpaper.sh "location1" "location2" ... on and on :)
>
> remember this about the script and where you specify your wallpapers as the
> argument to it;
> THE PICTURES MUST BE ABLE TO FIT THE SETTING YOU SPECIFY so that when it is
> applied to the desktop, it looks right. so keep all of the
>
> Let me know if you have any trouble, i will try and do what i can to help
> you. :)
>
>
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