Hi Peter, Thanks for your response! I've tried Webilder, but there are no repositories for either Karmic or Jaunty. Your second link however guided me to "Drapes" which I'm putting through the paces now... Perhaps I'll just need to download a bunch of wallpapers and let it do the rest of the magic :-) Thanks again Cheers, - Eric Message: 7
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:05:06 +1200 From: Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] Ubuntu desktop image feeds Message-ID: <j2k548e07051004221605gbdddbf53p2e433897b7b0e283(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I'm looking for an app that will change my Ubuntu (Karmic) desktop image periodically, with images from Flickr.
E.g. I'd like it to automatically flick through the photos here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/metservice-nz/) every hour or so.
Any advice?? Does this exist yet?
A quick search for "ubuntu desktop background image flickr changer":
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-set-flickr-images-as-ubuntu-desktop-wallpape... http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-wallpaper-changer-apps-for-linux/
Webuilder seems to be closest to what you want. Only downside, you need to trigger the download of the images manually.
NB: haven't used any of these tools myself.
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/<http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/%7Efracpete/> Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174