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<h1>Dynamically change your gnome desktop wallpaper</h1>
<p class="date">Published on Mon 11 October 2010</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You can have a look to the git repository if you want: <a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/ametaireau/gnome-background-generator">http://github.com/ametaireau/gnome-background-generator</a></p>
<p>Some time ago, I've made a little python script to ease that, and you can now
use it too. It's named &quot;gnome-background-generator&quot;, and you can install it via
pip for instance.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre>$ pip install gnome-background-generator
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<p>Then, you have just to use it this way:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre>$ gnome-background-generator -p ~/Images/walls -s
/home/alexis/Images/walls/dynamic-wallpaper.xml generated
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<p>Here is a extract of the <cite>--help</cite>:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre>$ 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 &quot;-&quot; 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 &#39;&#39;&#39;try to set the background using gnome-appearance-
properties
-b, --debug
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