Random Wallpaper Change

[elder73]

I have quite a large family and over the course of a year we take a lot of photos. On my Windows laptop (Yes! shame on me!) I have the wallpaper set to to a random change of image. It changes at what ever interval I set for it. It is a nice way to look at our family over the year. Can't figure out how to do that with K. 14.04. It is probably something simple but... Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.

[Tom_ZeCat]

I have quite a large family and over the course of a year we take a lot of photos. On my Windows laptop (Yes! shame on me!) I have the wallpaper set to to a random change of image. It changes at what ever interval I set for it. It is a nice way to look at our family over the year. Can't figure out how to do that with K. 14.04. It is probably something simple but... Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.

There's a utility named Wallch that purports to do it. My one concern is it's a Gnome-based app, not KDE, but it does show up in Muon Discover as available, so I'd bet it will work. Here are a couple links about it:

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/raring/wallch/

http://askubuntu.com/questions/134/h...aper-slideshow

I think I'll try it out myself.

[vinnywright]

right click the desktop>click "default desktop settings>click the drop-down box at wallpaper>click slideshow>point it to your picks>click apply

no need to add anything

VINNY

[Tom_ZeCat]

When I right click on the desktop, I don't see an option of "Desktop Settings." I see "Folder Settings." If I choose that, I find I can change the wallpaper used, but I don't find anything that allows for a slide show. I also tried looking in System Settings, but could not find it.

[Tom_ZeCat]

[delete this accidental duplicate]

[vinnywright]

When I right click on the desktop, I don't see an option of "Desktop Settings." I see "Folder Settings." If I choose that, I find I can change the wallpaper used, but I don't find anything that allows for a slide show. I also tried looking in System Settings, but could not find it.

your using the "folder view"desktop layout setting to see this option you must be using the "default desktop" setting.

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VINNY

[vinnywright]

PS: if you like the "folder view" but still want the slideshow wallpaper you can use the folder view widget and size it as you wish



VINNY

[DoYouKubuntu]

There's also a widget, called "Picture Frame," that does what you're hoping for, except that the images are shown within its...picture frame. So it's not the wallpaper that's changing, but this is nice if you'd rather have a static wallpaper but still have images displaying and rotating. I had this widget on my mom's computer and she just loved it, but she also loved the wallpaper we had up, so this was a perfect solution.

[vinnywright]

desktop-1 doing the "slideshow" with the "my downloaded wallpapers" option selected after downloading some wallpapers from the "get new wallpapers" function.

☢VINNY☢

[elder73]

Thank you Vinny, the slideshow is working fine. As I see other problems on this thread I can't very well say it is now fixed or whatever. elder73