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Create dynamic wallpaper in Ubuntu and LinuxMint with Wallpaper Slideshow

Written by Mel Kham on May 24, 2010. Posted in Linux tutorials

Wallpaper Slideshow is a small utility to create and set the background xml file needed for wallpaper slideshows in Gnome.

To use Wallpaper Slideshow :

1- Download Wallpaper Slideshow

2- Extract ‘wallpaper’ from the archive
3- Double click it and then click run when presented with a dialog

4- Click the ‘Select’ button and choose your folder containing the images you wish to use in your slideshow

4) Edit the picture duration and transition duration if desired
5) Click ‘OK’

Useful Links : http://gnome-look.org

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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Anonymous

Das ist sehr schön…vielen Dank!!
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Many thanks for this, it saves a lot of time to edit xml by hand. What is the pity that Ubuntu do not have integrated tools to do this.
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Sweet! I was going to code this on my own. I might extend it :).
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how to stop this wallpaper?
Ace687

Doesn’t work in Ubuntu 12.04
Toby

I get this when I use it:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./wallpaper”, line 190, in ok_button_clicked
    doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(backgrounds_file)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py”, line 1920, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py”, line 922, in parse
    fp = open(file, ‘rb’)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/toby/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml’

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