NextWall

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NextWall

Developer(s)	Serrano Pereira
Initial release	2010; 23 months ago (2010)
Preview release	0.2.2 / November 6, 2011; 3 months ago (2011-11-06)
Written in	Python
Operating system	GNU/Linux
Development status	Active
License	GPL3

NextWall is a small script that changes the background of the GNOME desktop to a random image. It is based on the change-background.py script by Davyd Madeley. NextWall has the following features:

• Operates as a command-line tool, run nextwall --help for usage information.
• Can place itself in the GNOME-panel with support for Ubuntu's Application Indicator.
• Option for finding images recursively in the specified folder.
• Deleting the current GNOME background image.
• Fit time of day feature; automatically sets backgrounds that fit the time of day (dark backgrounds at night, bright backgrounds at day, intermediate at dusk/dawn).

Download

• Download NextWall
• Or get the trunk version from my Bazaar repository,
  bzr checkout http://byobu.info/bzr/nextwall/trunk/ nextwall

Dependencies

• gnome
• python
• libappindicator-dev
• python-appindicator
• imagemagick

On Ubuntu, run this command to install all dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python libappindicator-dev python-appindicator imagemagick

Usage Tips

• You can use 'watch' to temporarily change the background at an interval. For 60 seconds, run watch -n 60 nextwall [options] [path]
• You can also use the 'cron' deamon to schedule execution of NextWall. For once an hour, run sudo crontab -u $USER -e and add this line:

0 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 nextwall [options] [path]