wallpaper changer script for MATE

[Bender72]

Just wanted to share this. I like to change my desktop wallpaper automatically. I tried Variety for a while, but it made my system unstable (it caused my desktop to freeze regularly.) On top of that, Variety feels like overkill - I just wanted the core functionality of regularly changing the background to a randomly selected picture. I used the script posted by Trapper333 in

https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/997

as a base but used find instead of ls to recurse through subdirectories.

#!/bin/bash
while true;do
DIR="{your picture path}"

# Command to Select a random jpg file from directory recursively
PIC=$(find $DIR -name "*.jpg" -type f | grep jpg | shuf -n1)

# Set Background Image
gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename "$PIC"
sleep 300
done