Rotating desktop wallpapers (Page 1 of 3)

Thank you so much, corenominal.

I've just downloaded this script via APT.
I wrote a simple script and add to my .conkyrc file, like this.

Rotate-wallpaper updates my desktop wallpaper every 60seconds (interval=60).

Life's more eye-candy.

Last edited by trendyteddy (2008-12-15 17:50:24)

Pls bear to my English, I'm just a #! Tux rider from Thailand.
(less than 5% can communicate in English )

You said it''s in the #! repository... what's needed to do to make it look in the places you want for pics/change time change for the script?

Or does it ask for this info when you install the app?

Just a nice quick how-to would be nice.

Also: once all bugs are found/ironed out, will this be put into main crunchbang? (Or at least linked to somewhere talking about wallpapers? eg a button that says "Install desktop-changer here" on a settings changer for the wallpaper?)

And sorry if I seem like I'm talking crap, I haven't changed my wallpaper yet =P

ignore me, it's been a long day =P

(though it hadn't been when I posted that =/   )

I couldn't save in crontab so did the following....

1) open pcmanfm as root (many ways to do including gksudo pcmanfm)

2) get to etc and make a new text file called cron.allow

3) open that as root and type

root
your-user-name

save it

4) terminal

export EDITOR=gedit
crontab -e

5) in gedit type

* * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 rotate-wallpaper -p /usr/share/backgrounds

will rotate the contents of /usr/share/backgrounds every minute

Last edited by tawan (2009-02-03 09:25:05)

Hello muppetjones

Nice work, I will check it out when I get a chance. Regarding the license, I am quite relaxed about it, I think I only included a license because I packaged the script. Also, I have to be honest, I had forgotten all about this, so I went to check the link in my original post and noticed the pastebin was empty. I guess I posted it before I fixed the pastebin; strangley, it used to delete permanent pastes. I will repaste and edit the original post.

Anyhow, thank you for sharing and welcome to the forums!

P.S. Muppets Rule!

EDIT: original post updated with new pastebin location.

Last edited by corenominal (2009-04-29 07:10:08)

Could anybody give me a helping hand. The problem is, I installed "rotate wallpaper", I typed "crontab -e", added the line:

* * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 rotate-wallpaper -p ~/images/wallpapers

(1 minute for testing purposes and /wallpapers, because this is the directory where I'm holding my wallpapers).
Nothing happens.. what am I doing wrong? Is there a way to check whether my cron is working at all?
I'm using #! Lite.

EDIT: Oh and just incase:

env | grep DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0

So that the display line should be right..

EDIT2: Oh and rotate-wallpaper -p ~/images/wallpapers works just fine..

Last edited by Hannus (2009-05-04 16:59:36)

If you also use conky, I recommend you do what was in the second post:

I had trouble setting up a cron event so I just went with this method.

muppetjones:

Very useful (modified) script.  Haven't used it much yet, but it seems to be working well.  One thing I noticed, however, is that the stretched option doesn't work; alas, I couldn't find a stretched option for nitrogen.  I simply edited your script by replacing every mention of the word stretched with scaled and that seems to have done the job.

Thanks so much for the script! (and of course to you as well corenominal!)

Last edited by MDepisode (2009-07-30 22:04:32)

First install Nitrogen, then just copy the script:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/235

into your ~/bin folder and it should work.

Hello there, first off i want to say that the script is really awesome, i really like it, but there was something that i wanted to add, and that is subdirectory support, so i decided to do something about it, and that's what i just did, even though it's not perfect (yet), i have splitted my idea in 3 different scripts, based (or i should say copied from) the scripts by muppetjones and corenominal, basically there's 3 scripts, the main one (the changer), the subdirectory reader, and the launcher, and i thought i could share it to see if anyone here could improve it to make it just one file with functions or something, i tried but i failed terribly , so here they are:

change-background.sh (main):
This is basically the same one by muppetjones, so i won't repost it

subd_chooser (The subdirectory chooser):

#!/bin/bash
IMAGES=[]
COUNT=0
for i in "$@"; do
    if [ -d "$i" ]; then
        #echo "i=$i"
        cd $i
        DIRECTORIES=($(ls -d */))
        #echo "DIRECTORIES = $DIRECTORIES"
        element_count=${#DIRECTORIES[@]}
    echo -n "scaled $i "
        for j in "$element_count"; do
            for index in $(seq 0 $((${#DIRECTORIES[@]} - 1)))
            do
                echo -n "scaled "
                echo -n "$i${DIRECTORIES[$index]} "
                COUNT=$((COUNT + 1))
            done
        done
    fi
done

wall_change (The one that actually applies the background):

#!/bin/bash
#getting the directories
subd_chooser $@ > ~/.config/rotate-wallpaper-2/directories
#changing the backgound
change-background.sh $(cat ~/.config/rotate-wallpaper-2/directories)

And the way I apply it is with the following command:

~$ wall_change /path/to/directory

There's something else, when you feed it a directory with no subdirectories i shows an error, but still continues...hope I can find a solution for it, or if someone have any ideas to improve this, go ahead and apply it...and really, thank you muppetjones and corenominal for sharing this script...

Last edited by JohnQUnknown (2009-08-04 08:34:59)

Two questions:

Is there a specific folder I should relocate the script to upon downloading?

Second, if I want the wallpaper change to take place every minute from startup automatically, would I do add the script to my crontab file or .conkyrc file.

I am new to non-GUI-based reconfigurations.  Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, please and thank you!

Thanks for the response, corenominal!

I decided to dive into unknown territory and gave it a shot with crontab, anyway.  I'm now happily watching my wallpaper change in the background every 2.5 minutes via the cron job I set up.   (The .5 was just to see if crontab would accept decimals - it does.)

On a side note, I found a nice explanation on creating crontabs at http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm that helped me feel more at ease with the task when I was staring at the cryptic terminal screen as it screamed at me:

# M   H   MDAY  MON  DOW   COMMAND!!  COMMAND!! 

(Well, I found it after I back came out of hiding anyway.) '

EDIT:
Also, for other total newbies out there:
"Just save the crontab to the path supplied. When its saved it should be installed" and then you'll receive the notification:

crontab: installing new crontab

(From http://forum.dreamhosters.com/troublesh … cript.htm)

The thought of a task being saved in a temp folder confused me until I read that.  Hope this helps someone out there.

Last edited by MissPride (2009-08-15 17:29:56)