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Dynamically change your gnome desktop wallpaper
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:date: 2010-10-11
In gnome, you can can use a XML file to have a dynamic wallpaper.
It's not so easy, and you can't just tell: use the pictures in this folder to do
so.
You can have a look to the git repository if you want: http://github.com/ametaireau/gnome-background-generator
Some time ago, I've made a little python script to ease that, and you can now
use it too. It's named "gnome-background-generator", and you can install it via
pip for instance.
.. code-block:: shell
$ pip install gnome-background-generator
Then, you have just to use it this way:
.. code-block:: shell
$ gnome-background-generator -p ~/Images/walls -s
/home/alexis/Images/walls/dynamic-wallpaper.xml generated
Here is a extract of the `--help`:
.. code-block:: shell
$ gnome-background-generator --help
usage: gnome-background-generator [-h] [-p PATH] [-o OUTPUT]
[-t TRANSITION_TIME] [-d DISPLAY_TIME] [-s]
[-b]
A simple command line tool to generate an XML file to use for gnome
wallpapers, to have dynamic walls
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p PATH, --path PATH Path to look for the pictures. If no output is
specified, will be used too for outputing the dynamic-
wallpaper.xml file. Default value is the current
directory (.)
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Output filename. If no filename is specified, a
dynamic-wallpaper.xml file will be generated in the
path containing the pictures. You can also use "-" to
display the xml in the stdout.
-t TRANSITION_TIME, --transition-time TRANSITION_TIME
Time (in seconds) transitions must last (default value
is 2 seconds)
-d DISPLAY_TIME, --display-time DISPLAY_TIME
Time (in seconds) a picture must be displayed. Default
value is 900 (15mn)
-s, --set-background '''try to set the background using gnome-appearance-
properties
-b, --debug