Gnome wallpaper changer

[viking60]

The old one was called wp.jar so it was quite a jump there. You start it by running the gautobg-changer.sh in the GautoBG-Changer folder. (Man I broke my finger just writing this)

[rvause]

Done this one to death I think ( : but I recently switched to the xfce4 desktop as gnome was getting in my way a little. So I re-wrote my wallpaper changer script for my dual monitor setup and set to run on startup.

See: https://github.com/rvause/stuff/blob/master/randomwallpaper/wallpaper_changer_xfce4

[viking60]

Feel free to start a new thread (Xfce wallpaper changer?). Your tips are valid so there is no reason to be modest

[b1o]

Nice one rvause. I might implement that in the gnome wallpaper changer, to widen the support

[rvause]

this is bordering on an obsession now but here is an update to my gnome wallpaper changer. I wanted to try out argparse in python (It's not really as flexible as I had hoped but maybe I am missing something) but now it seems a little more sensible to use.

This runs without cron like "wallpaper_changer -b" and will update the wallpaper every 5 minutes.

https://github.com/rvause/stuff/blob/ma ... er_changer

[viking60]

I'll give it a spin - Keep up the obsessions! It's fun and interesting and something good is coming out of it.

[viking60]

install jdk, it will uninstall openjdk/openjre, This will make it work, the openjdk has a problem with compiz. you can use compiz but then you need to turn off compiz, start the bg changer, then start compiz again... I found it easier to just get JRE/JDK from sun/oracle. i will try to get it working with openjdk next release.

And if you install jdk it will replace open jdk and netbeans won't be touched.(at least in arch it does)

The problem with compiz is that the openjdk hasn't included it in it's library as a desktop manager.

Yupp tried this after I roayly fubared my system by trying to extend the root partition with gparted (It won't work folks!). So I took the oracle jdk from the arch repos.
And this thing works just fine in Compiz. When I start it manually I get the tray icon but during automated startup java -jar <path> blabla.jar I don't get it in compiz. That is fine by me, because it is already configured and working. But to my suprise it turns up in KDE!? Ka farskæn?

[viking60]

Time to rewrite your stuff - it does not work in Gnome 3
Edit:
Since no one rushed to our aid here is a perl script that works in Gnome3:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
my $searchPath = '~/<your_wallpaper_directory>/';   # Set to the directory you want to have searched for photos
my $switchTime = 20;               # Edit to the number of seconds between photo switches
my @photos = `find $searchPath -type f | grep [jJ][pP][eE]*[gG]`;             
chomp(@photos);
my $photo;
while(1)
{
    $photo = $photos[rand($#photos)];
     `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///$photo"`;
    sleep($switchTime);
}

Save it as wallpaper.pl and start it with

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perl wallpaper.pl

Hmm I think this deserves a new thread