Rotate Wallpaper Automatically

Thu Apr 8 09:13:58 UTC 2010

I'm grateful for the helpful suggestions and I'll try the software
solution.  But having raised the question I set about solving it
myself, and soon found a script to do the job.  I also found Gnome
Schedule Tasks, which looks like a really simple front end for cron
jobs.

The script works: I've got two copies of it, one in my home folder and
one in /usr/local/bin where I keep another script I use occasionally.
Anyway. I set it as executable and I can run either version and the
wallpaper changes.  I used the task scheduler to automate the running
of my script on reboot: and it doesn't.

As far as I can see I've completed the fields correctly.  So if I want
to find out what's wrong I guess I need to look at the actual cron job
but I don't know how or where to find it and what it should look like
when I do.

Ollie

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>   1. Grub2 and a custom environment variable (sam)
>   2. Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser (NoOp)
>   3. Re: Rotate Wallpaper Automatically (Cybe R. Wizard)
>   4. Touchpad stoped scrolling after update in 10.04
>      (Marcelo Magno T. Sales)
>   5. Re: Grub2 and a custom environment variable (Tom H)
>   6. Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser (sdavmor)
>   7. Re: Touchpad stoped scrolling after update in 10.04 (Fred Roller)
>   8. Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser (Basil Chupin)
>   9. Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser (Basil Chupin)
>  10. Re: Grub2 and a custom environment variable (sam)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:04:13 -0400
> From: sam <srf10130 at vtc.vsc.edu>
> Subject: Grub2 and a custom environment variable
> To: Ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Does anyone know how to add a custom environment variable to
> /etc/default/grub and have it be usable in the grub.d scripts.
>
> I would like to define a GRUB_MAX_KERNEL variable to use in 10_linux,
> but simply adding it to /etc/default/grub doesn't quite cut it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:11:22 -0700
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 04/07/2010 06:02 PM, NoOp wrote:
> ...
>> I only use TB for testing; on the newly installed TB3 in lucid that I
>> installed to test the calendar (lightning) issue, I find that clicking
>> on a url in an email msg results in a 'Launch Application' popup asking
>> me to 'Choose an Application'. I can of course wander around and _find_
>> firefox, seamonkey, opera, et al to launch the url, but I shouldn't have
>> to. TB should use the preferences that I've already set in
>> System|Preferences|Preferred Applications. This sounds like a TB bug to me.
>>
>> So, looking on launchpad:
>> <https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=lucid+%2Bthunderbird&field.actions.search=Search>
>>
>> I find:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/547103
>> [[ubuntu lucid] thunderbird does not know how to open a weblink]
>> Feel free to join along...
>
> Sorry, I just noticed that 547103 is marked as a duplicate of:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/526290
> [Thunderbird 3 hyperlinks broken]
>
> It appears that installing 'thunderbird-gnome-support' resolves the
> issue - does for me & now TB3 opens seamonkey when the url is clicked.
>
> Odd that Ubuntu didn't include this as a depends. Reminds me of
> OpenOffice.org where you have to go back out an actually install the
> 'openoffice.org' package just to get java widgets & OOo Base installed &
> running. Sigh... I'll stick to standard mozilla installs thanks very much.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:20:50 -0500
> From: "Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: Rotate Wallpaper Automatically
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20100407202050.4c456186 at WizardsTower>
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> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:12:42 +0100
> Ollie Killingback <ollie.killingback at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got a number of great pics on my Ubuntu 9.10 laptop.? Is it
>> possible (well, I'm sure it is, the real question is "how is it")
>> possible to cycle through the set so I get a new one every time I
>> reboot?? The ones I like best have all been added to the set of
>> backgrounds under System|Preferences|Appearance so I guess I need a
>> script to change which one is selected...  I'd appreciate any help.
>>
>> Ollie
>>
> Kubuntu (KDE) does so.  Compiz has that capability, too.  I think there
> are other add-ons for GNOME that will accomplish it, too.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:25:45 -0300
> From: "Marcelo Magno T. Sales" <mmtsales at gmail.com>
> Subject: Touchpad stoped scrolling after update in 10.04
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <201004072225.45846.mmtsales at gmail.com>
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>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Sony Vaio VPCF11FB laptop. Until recently, its touchpad was
> detected as if it was a mouse, but it worked all right. I just could not
> configure the synaptic related features.
> However, after the upgrade to beta 1, the touchpad is now recognized as
> an ALPS touchpad, but scrolling stopped working. Any idea on how I can
> make scrolling work again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:22:39 -0400
> From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Grub2 and a custom environment variable
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:04 PM, sam <srf10130 at vtc.vsc.edu> wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to add a custom environment variable to
>> /etc/default/grub and have it be usable in the grub.d scripts.
>> I would like to define a GRUB_MAX_KERNEL variable to use in 10_linux,
>> but simply adding it to /etc/default/grub doesn't quite cut it.
>
> See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/492995
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:27:19 -0700
> From: sdavmor <sdavmor at systemstheory.net>
> Subject: Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4BBD3F07.7070204 at systemstheory.net>
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> On 04/07/2010 05:33 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 08/04/10 05:36, sdavmor wrote:
>>> On 04/07/2010 05:27 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using Lucid, and Thunderbird 3.0.4 with Firefox 3.6.3 on a
>>>> 32-bit system.
>>>>
>>>> On another distro I can click on a link mentioned in an email
>>>> and this automatically starts Firefox if it is offline or opens
>>>> a new tab if FF is already running.
>>>>
>>>> With Lucid I cannot do this.
>>>>
>>>> I do have Launchy installed - but I do not think that this is
>>>> where the problem lies.
>>>>
>>>> I also have TB and FF as the default applications in the
>>>> System Preferences.
>>>>
>>>> What is puzzling me is that I can go to
>>>> System>Preferences>Appearance and click on the links Get More
>>>> Backgrounds or Themes and in both cases Firefox is
>>>> automatically started (or the correct web page brought up). But
>>>> this does not happen from within Thunderbird.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what is needed to be done to get a URL link in
>>>> TB activate FF? For example, in an email someone supplies a
>>>> link to a YouTube video; I used to click on that link and the
>>>> video would be automatically brought up in Firefox. How to get
>>>> this feature back in Ubuntu, anyone?
>>>>
>>>> BC
>>>>
>>> I had this problem with TB when I started getting the
>>> pre-release nightly upgrades for TB. I had to manually reattach
>>> the link to FF from inside TB options.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the response but it doesn't provide me with the solution
>> :-) : what does "manually reattach the link to FF" mean?
>>
>> BC
>
> When I clicked on a link that would have gone to the web a dialog box
> popped up from which I browsed to Firefox. I am surprised it didn't do
> so for you. But be that as it may. As NoOp has pointed out it should
> all be resolvable by installing thunderbird-gnome-support.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:35:33 -0400
> From: Fred Roller <fred at fwrgallery.com>
> Subject: Re: Touchpad stoped scrolling after update in 10.04
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4BBD40F5.8050004 at fwrgallery.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 04/07/2010 09:25 PM, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Sony Vaio VPCF11FB laptop. Until recently, its touchpad was
>> detected as if it was a mouse, but it worked all right. I just could not
>> configure the synaptic related features.
>> However, after the upgrade to beta 1, the touchpad is now recognized as
>> an ALPS touchpad, but scrolling stopped working. Any idea on how I can
>> make scrolling work again?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marcelo
>>
>>
> Have you looked in:
>
>     System --> Preferences --> Mouse
>     click "Touchpad" tab
>
> see if "Edge Scrolling" is checked.  If the OS is recognizing it as a
> touchpad these options should not be grayed out.
>
> --
> Fred
> www.fwrgallery.com
>
> "Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:56:34 +1000
> From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
> Subject: Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4BBD45E2.4090401 at iinet.net.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> On 08/04/10 12:27, sdavmor wrote:
>> On 04/07/2010 05:33 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/04/10 05:36, sdavmor wrote:
>>>
>
>>>> I had this problem with TB when I started getting the
>>>> pre-release nightly upgrades for TB. I had to manually reattach
>>>> the link to FF from inside TB options.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the response but it doesn't provide me with the solution
>>> :-) : what does "manually reattach the link to FF" mean?
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>> When I clicked on a link that would have gone to the web a dialog box
>> popped up from which I browsed to Firefox. I am surprised it didn't do
>> so for you. But be that as it may. As NoOp has pointed out it should
>> all be resolvable by installing thunderbird-gnome-support.
>>
>
> I got the prompt only the first time 'round - and did not get it again
> when TB was upgraded.
>
> (BTW, the version of TB, and FF, comes from Ubuntu repos and not from,
> say, ubuntuzilla.)
>
> I received the answer from Doug in another thread (to do with Users
> Digest :-) in this list) which I will repeat here so that others
> following this thread know about the solution.
>
> To get TB to activate a a link in the browser delete the file
> *mimeTypes.rdf* in the thunderbird profile directory
> (~/.thunderbird/*.default). This file will be recreated the next time
> you start TB; and when you click on a link in TB you will get the prompt
> where you can then put in the choice of browser for TB to use. Yes, this
> requires you to find your way to the file (at the moment, here, it is
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.3/*firefox)*, but this is not rocket science.
>
> As NoOp states, this should be done automatically by Ubuntu itself but
> at the moment you will need to do this fix manually whenever FF is upgraded.
>
> BC
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:59:48 +1000
> From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
> Subject: Re: Thunderbird and launching Firefox browser
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4BBD46A4.7090202 at iinet.net.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> On 08/04/10 11:11, NoOp wrote:
>> On 04/07/2010 06:02 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> I only use TB for testing; on the newly installed TB3 in lucid that I
>>> installed to test the calendar (lightning) issue, I find that clicking
>>> on a url in an email msg results in a 'Launch Application' popup asking
>>> me to 'Choose an Application'. I can of course wander around and _find_
>>> firefox, seamonkey, opera, et al to launch the url, but I shouldn't have
>>> to. TB should use the preferences that I've already set in
>>> System|Preferences|Preferred Applications. This sounds like a TB bug to me.
>>>
>>> So, looking on launchpad:
>>> <https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=lucid+%2Bthunderbird&field.actions.search=Search>
>>>
>>> I find:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/547103
>>> [[ubuntu lucid] thunderbird does not know how to open a weblink]
>>> Feel free to join along...
>>>
>> Sorry, I just noticed that 547103 is marked as a duplicate of:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/526290
>> [Thunderbird 3 hyperlinks broken]
>>
>> It appears that installing 'thunderbird-gnome-support' resolves the
>> issue - does for me&  now TB3 opens seamonkey when the url is clicked.
>>
>> Odd that Ubuntu didn't include this as a depends. Reminds me of
>> OpenOffice.org where you have to go back out an actually install the
>> 'openoffice.org' package just to get java widgets&  OOo Base installed&
>> running. Sigh... I'll stick to standard mozilla installs thanks very much.
>>
>
> Thanks for your response. See my reply to sdavmor (of a few moments
> ago). Annoyance solved.
>
> BC
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 23:06:14 -0400
> From: sam <srf10130 at vtc.vsc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Grub2 and a custom environment variable
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> On 04/07/2010 10:22 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:04 PM, sam<srf10130 at vtc.vsc.edu>  wrote:
>>> Does anyone know how to add a custom environment variable to
>>> /etc/default/grub and have it be usable in the grub.d scripts.
>>> I would like to define a GRUB_MAX_KERNEL variable to use in 10_linux,
>>> but simply adding it to /etc/default/grub doesn't quite cut it.
>>
>> See
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/492995
>>
> Thanks Tom,
>
> I have attached my patches to the bug you mentioned.
>
> Sam
>
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