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Easy to use random wallpaper changer
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Eathray

Joined: 06 Sep 2009
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PostPosted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 15:37    Post subject:  
SFR,

This wallpaper switcher pet is fantastic!

Could I request a pet version for xfce on Lucid 525? That's lucid with the older kernel, in case anyone doesn't know.

Would be great to have this in xfce!

Thanks

Eathray
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SFR


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PostPosted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 18:04    Post subject:  
Thanks Eathray! Smile

Here it is, briefly tested in Saluki-022 and Lupu-528 + XFCE-4.4.6.2 (from the repo).
Hope it will work in your Puppy, too.

Note: In Lupu, right after loading XFCE for the first time, I had to change wallpaper manually at first (via 'Desktop Settings'), and only after that the app started to work correctly.
I don't know why's that..?

Anyway, just let me know if everything's all right for sure.

Greetings!
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Eathray

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PostPosted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 18:56    Post subject:  
SFR,

Smokin' man! Worked out of the box.

Thanks. I did not expect such a quick response, either. Cool.

Can I ask, how would I go about setting this up to automatically launch on start up? Any thoughts?

Thanks again. Works fantastic.

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SFR


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PostPosted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 19:17    Post subject:  
I'm glad it's ok.

When you press "Start" button, shortcut in the /root/Startup directory is created, to launch the app at system start.
And, adequately, pressing "Stop" removes the shortcut.

It doesn't work for you?

Greetings!
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Eathray

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PostPosted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 19:26    Post subject:  
SFR,

Hmm... I don't know Embarassed I've just been sitting here watching your awesome creation, and I haven't rebooted Laughing

I'll reboot now and see if it auto launches Cool

Thanks

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Eathray

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PostPosted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 19:46    Post subject:  
SFR wrote:
I'm glad it's ok.

When you press "Start" button, shortcut in the /root/Startup directory is created, to launch the app at system start.
And, adequately, pressing "Stop" removes the shortcut.

It doesn't work for you?

Greetings!


SFR,

You are right. I bow to your super powers. I rebooted and it launched right up. I was also pleased that the dialogue box was closed. PERFECTION Wink

Thanks again,

Eathray
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SFR


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PostPosted: Tue 05 Jun 2012, 20:06    Post subject:  
I think my powers aren't super (yet Wink ), but nice to hear that. Very Happy

Take care & Greetings!
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Geoffrey


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PostPosted: Thu 07 Jun 2012, 19:47    Post subject:  
Eathray,

if you didn't know, Saluki-022 already has a random wallpaper changer with switch times from 1 min to 240 min in the PPM.

XFCE Desktop settings allows you to create a list of images to use with it,
the list of images can be added or subtracted with images from any location.

The Wallpaper changer locates itself in the systemtray. xfwpcnm-1.0.pet
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Eathray

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PostPosted: Mon 11 Jun 2012, 17:00    Post subject:  
Geoffrey wrote:
Eathray,

if you didn't know, Saluki-022 already has a random wallpaper changer with switch times from 1 min to 240 min in the PPM.

XFCE Desktop settings allows you to create a list of images to use with it,
the list of images can be added or subtracted with images from any location.

The Wallpaper changer locates itself in the systemtray. xfwpcnm-1.0.pet


Thanks for the info...

Although, I got so excited with SFR's way cool .pet I've already installed it on a half-dozen Pups Razz

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bones01

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PostPosted: Wed 13 Jun 2012, 03:40    Post subject:  
This is very cool. Thanks for making it so simple for people like me Smile

I'm enjoying it.

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rmcellig

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PostPosted: Fri 22 Jun 2012, 20:54    Post subject:  
I am now using Random Wallpaper changer and was wondering if RWC can work with absolute or relative links to background images instead of accessing image files directly.
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SFR


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PostPosted: Sat 23 Jun 2012, 07:54    Post subject:  
rmcellig wrote:
I am now using Random Wallpaper changer and was wondering if RWC can work with absolute or relative links to background images instead of accessing image files directly.

Doh Embarassed , it was supposed to follow symlinks, but apparently I forgot to test this feature; thanks rmcellig. Smile

It's just a single letter fix in /usr/local/RWC/rwc-main file:
Quote:
WALLPAPER=`find -L "$PIX_PATH" -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -i | grep " image/" | sort -R | tail -1 | rev | cut -f2- -d ':' | rev`

and should be:
Quote:
WALLPAPER=`find -L "$PIX_PATH" -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -Li | grep " image/" | sort -R | tail -1 | rev | cut -f2- -d ':' | rev`

I also rewrote RWC a bit, to automatically detect if there's XFCE session running, so now RWC-1.3 works with XFCE as well as other, 'ROX Desktop' based, window managers (Openbox/JWM/IceWM...).

PS. It's better to stop and uninstall previous RWC before installing this one.

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PostPosted: Sat 23 Jun 2012, 13:47    Post subject:  
Thank you thank you thank you!! This is what I love about puppy Lunux I would never get from my Mac. Here I am with a symlink issue and just like that it's resolved. Plus a new updated version to boot!! Can I uninstall from the package manager or is there something else I need to do?

I am having so much fun with puppy Linux!!
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SFR


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PostPosted: Sat 23 Jun 2012, 14:41    Post subject:  
Just stop RWC and then uninstall it via PPM.

I recommend it, because the start/stop mechanism has been changed also to prevent a strange behaviour under XFCE that I've noticed recently.
Sometimes after restarting X server there were two processes of RWC active - something similar to what Jim1911 has reported earlier...
Now it's (hopefully) fixed.

Have fun & Greetings!
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snowy


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PostPosted: Thu 26 Jul 2012, 13:35    Post subject:  
Great little paper changer.

May I suggest an improvement, or maybe just a variant. I didn't like waiting for the first change, especially if INTERVAL is long.

I want it to show a new set of wallpapers in backgrounds/1 and to show the first one immediately. At present it waits for "INTERVAL" before showing the first wallpaper in the new set. It will change immediately if I move the line "sleep $INTERVAL":
Code:
#!/bin/bash

# Randomly changes the wallpaper at fixed time intervals

INTERVAL=90      # in seconds

while true; do
    WALLPAPER=`ls /usr/share/backgrounds/1 | sort -R | head -1`
  set_bg "/usr/share/backgrounds/1/$WALLPAPER"
  sleep $INTERVAL
done


I have saved the following code and made it executable to return to my default wallpaper:
Code:
killall randomwallpaper
set_bg "/usr/share/backgrounds/defaultwallpaper.jpeg"
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