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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

Thanks Eathray!

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!

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.

Eathray

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,

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

I'll reboot now and see if it auto launches

Thanks

Eathray

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

Thanks again,

Eathray

I think my powers aren't super (yet ), but nice to hear that.

Take care & Greetings!

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

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

Eathray

This is very cool. Thanks for making it so simple for people like me

I'm enjoying it.

Bones

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.

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

It's just a single letter fix in /usr/local/RWC/rwc-main file:

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:

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.

Greetings!

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!!

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!

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": I have saved the following code and made it executable to return to my default wallpaper:

Hey Snowy.

I think the same way...and actually it's already done in all RWC .pets.

Thanks & Greetings!

I am using Lucid Puppy 528.005 with the JWM desktop.

I have tried both PWC 1.3 and 1.2 they each do the same thing. The control panel for the program is minimized and cannot be made larger. Right clicking the edge of the panel displays the "gray menu", but this menu doesn't include "Resize" and when "Maximize" is selected the RWC's menu moves to the upper left corner of the screen but the size doesn't change.

The program really isn't usable.

Yup, looks awful when font size is too large...
Thanks for pointing this out!
Try RWC-1.4, it's auto-resizable now.

Additionaly I added option to include subfolders of the selected folder.

Greetings!

SFR wrote:
Try RWC-1.4, it's auto-resizable now.

It works like a charm..........

Thank you for a great app.

Hey Don922

Glad to hear that RWC works for you ok now.
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Sorry to those who already have downloaded RWC-1.4.
The next version is ready, again...but I guess I'll give it a rest with another updates in the nearest future.

This time I added:
- choice of wallpaper style
- choice to follow symlinks or not
- minor improvements & fixes

Note: it's better not to mix Tile style with Wbar-2.3.0-1 in ROX enviroment, because Wbar won't be refreshed properly in this case.
I can't say why is that; the same thing happens when I choose 'Tile' in Nathan Wallpaper Setter and then refresh Wbar with right-click...
But then again under XFCE everything is just fine...

Greetings!