Simple Random Wallpaper Changer

[Locrian]

Ok! I've been leeching of this forum for quite a bit. So I think I can finally give something back to the community!

After a lot of messing around i found out that if you run the command:

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fbsetbg -r /path to wallpaper folder

It will randomly choose a wallpaper from the folder and make it your background.

There's variables you can add for scaled, centered, titled, etc to get this just type in a terminal:

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fbsetbg -h

So all you need to do is run the command and it will change your background.

I found two simple ways of running the command automatically at a certain interval:
1. Using Ktimer (its a simple countdown app that will run a command after it counts down and it has the loop option)
2. Using Conky:
add this some where in the TEXT area of your .conkyrc

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${execi 60 fbsetbg -r  /path to wallpaper folder -su}

the 60 is the amount of second till it runs the command again.

[Locrian]

Sorry for the double post but i figured out another handy thing.

If you open thunar and go to
Edit/Configure Custom Actions

then make a new action, i called it Set As Wallpaper, then i used the command

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fbsetbg %f

the %f adds the full path of the file you right clicked on so another thing you could do is add the variable for centered, titled or etc before the %f, if not fbsetbg will go to default which is fullscreen

and make sure you select Image File under Appearance Condition

then when you right click on an image file you can hit "Set As Wallpaper" instead of having to do it on command line or other way.

[tawan]

Simple Random Wallpaper Changer.

nice. A lot simpler than the one I found before