Automatically changing background every hour

[Phil Bieber]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:31, Cameron Hutchison <lists at xdna.net> wrote:
> I have a bunch of images that I like to use as background (wallpaper)
> images. I would like my background to choose from these images at random
> every hour and display it. How do I configure gnome to do this?
>
> I was using the chbg program but now something in gnome seems to be
> putting up a grey background over the random picture (which is briefly
> displayed upon login).
>
> I do not run nautilus in the background or let it show the desktop (I
> hate icons on the desktop).
>
> I am using Gnome and Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy).

Hi!
Have look at desktop-drapes, drapes in the repos.

I use it!

Cheers
Phil Bieber
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