Easy to use random wallpaper changer
- Sky Aisling
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Easy to use random wallpaper changer
Hi SFR,
Mixed reviews ...
I'm wondering if the issue is running from a Live CD or from a Frugal installation.
Here's what I have found:
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 frugally installed on Dell Inspiron 600m.
Worked fine
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 Live CD on ZaReason Big Lap.
No initiating of program - menu/desktop/wallpaper changer entry shows but nothing happens when requested.
In both cases I downloaded the .pet into my home folder *my-applications*.
Both Puppy-528.005 .isos taken from Barry's download site in November 2012.
Hope this helps.
Then there is my embarrassment...I'm looking for a screensaver not a wallpaper changer.
Mixed reviews ...
I'm wondering if the issue is running from a Live CD or from a Frugal installation.
Here's what I have found:
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 frugally installed on Dell Inspiron 600m.
Worked fine
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 Live CD on ZaReason Big Lap.
No initiating of program - menu/desktop/wallpaper changer entry shows but nothing happens when requested.
In both cases I downloaded the .pet into my home folder *my-applications*.
Both Puppy-528.005 .isos taken from Barry's download site in November 2012.
Hope this helps.
Then there is my embarrassment...I'm looking for a screensaver not a wallpaper changer.
Re: Easy to use random wallpaper changer
Yeah, that's odd...Here's what I have found:
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 frugally installed on Dell Inspiron 600m.
Worked fine
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 Live CD on ZaReason Big Lap.
No initiating of program - menu/desktop/wallpaper changer entry shows but nothing happens when requested.
IOW, it looks like in the first case /usr/sbin/gtkdialog4 is present, but in the second case it's not.
Perhaps some sort of layer issue or sth..?
I'll try to investigate it some day...
No problem.Then there is my embarrassment...I'm looking for a screensaver not a wallpaper changer.
How about pupxscreensaver, worked fine for me in Lupu:
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- Sky Aisling
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Easy to use random wallpaper changer
Thanks for the tip
Thank you for the work on Wallpaper Changer. The dialogue box was easy to understand.
GLSlideshow doesn't work in it. I'm looking for a slideshow presentation of my picture file, like the GNOME Xscreensaver.How about pupxscreensaver, worked fine for me in Lupu:
Thank you for the work on Wallpaper Changer. The dialogue box was easy to understand.
Re: Easy to use random wallpaper changer
Sky, I have found two interesting, little binaries:Sky Aisling wrote:GLSlideshow doesn't work in it. I'm looking for a slideshow presentation of my picture file, like the GNOME Xscreensaver.
qiv - for fullscreen slideshow
xprintidle - for detecting keyboard/mouse idle time
It was enough to combine them with simple script and it seems to work fine (tried in Lupu also).
Download and unpack the attched archive, (make all files executable, if they're not so), modify constants in slidesaver script (delay, interval, pics directory), and:
1. Click the script to enable daemon
2. Click the script again to disable daemon
Now it picks pictures randomly, but it's easy to customize (qiv --help).
To launch at startup, simply make a symlink in /root/Startup/ to slidesaver script.
HTH
Greetings!
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- Sky Aisling
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Easy to use random wallpaper changer
SFR - Yes!
I copied *my-pictures* file from *home* into /usr/share.
(I tried directing it to ~/my-pictures but that did not take, so, placed *my-pictures* in /usr/share)
Now, how do I make one picture slowly fade down and the next picture slowly fade up?
I copied *my-pictures* file from *home* into /usr/share.
(I tried directing it to ~/my-pictures but that did not take, so, placed *my-pictures* in /usr/share)
Now, how do I make one picture slowly fade down and the next picture slowly fade up?
Re: Easy to use random wallpaper changer
Does that folder contains not only pictures or lots of them?(I tried directing it to ~/my-pictures but that did not take, so, placed *my-pictures* in /usr/share)
If so, it takes some time for qiv to scan them all...
Unfortunately it seems that qiv doesn't have such a feature...Now, how do I make one picture slowly fade down and the next picture slowly fade up?
There is also pqiv, but:
(Besides, the fading isn't "slow" at all )-F Make "pqiv" fade between images. Currently this does only work for images of equal size.
But if your collection contains pics, which have the same size, you can try it - just download and extract the .deb (i386) package from the above link, copy pqiv binary to SlideSaver directory and replace appropriate line in the script with, eg.:
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"$APPDIR/pqiv" -ifFsSnnt -d $INTERVAL "$PICDIR" & QIV_PID=$!
(in case of doubt, just let know in this thread).
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- Sky Aisling
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Easy to use random wallpaper changer
No, nine test pictures, mixed .jpg and .png of various sizes.Does that folder contains not only pictures or lots of them?
Anyway, you can always do a search for an image viewer with features you're looking for and if you succeed, just modify that single line appropriately, according to 'found_image_viewer --help' printout.
Where/how to I search for an *image viewer*? Through Google? What keywords to use? Am I looking for an image viewer written in a specific language?
Thank you SFR.
I am determined to find a slideshow screensaver that functions similar to the GLslideshow feature in GNOME's Xscreensaver.
I don't care if the pictures *scale* to the screen size.
I don't care if they *enter* stage right or left.
This bit of coding you've sent would be perfect if I can just make it slowly fade from random pic to random pic.
Re: Easy to use random wallpaper changer
Here's the first result of "best way to search" query:Where/how to I search for an *image viewer*? Through Google? What keywords to use? Am I looking for an image viewer written in a specific language?
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-bes ... ternet.htm
Use keywords like: linux, slideshow, fullscreen, viewer, fade, transitions, list of image viewers for linux, etc. Whatever comes to your mind.
Also check your PPM and this forum.
Doesn't matter in which language really - what matters is if it will work for you well, and it has to be "launchable" from command line (to be able to call it from script and use its internal options).
BTW, see if this one meets your needs:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23045
I gave it a shot, but the fade effect fails from time to time.
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- ASRI éducation
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I just found and test your application.SFR wrote:RWC-1.7.pet
Description Removed "Online" mode, added gettext, refreshed the code
As usual, it's excellent!
I took the opportunity to create a French translation.
Note: for the translation, I added three gettext tags missing. (<label> in lines 190 to 204).
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<radiobutton>
<variable>varSEC</variable>
<label>'$(gettext "Seconds")'</label>
<default>'${SEC}'</default>
</radiobutton>
<radiobutton>
<variable>varMIN</variable>
<label>'$(gettext "Minutes")'</label>
<default>'${MIN}'</default>
</radiobutton>
<radiobutton>
<variable>varHRS</variable>
<label>'$(gettext "Hours")'</label>
<default>'${HRS}'</default>
</radiobutton>
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Thank you ASRI.
I corrected and reuploaded the pet (v1.7.1).
Your translation has been included.
Thanks again &
Greetings!
I corrected and reuploaded the pet (v1.7.1).
Your translation has been included.
Thanks again &
Greetings!
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Hello, SFR.
I heard through the grapevine that a README_fr was needed for the RWC?
So here you go !
BFN.
musher0
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P.S. Also, I think I saw a typo in the first line of the English: "dekstop" instead of "desktop", or something like that.
I heard through the grapevine that a README_fr was needed for the RWC?
So here you go !
I suppose it's not too late in the year to wish you a Happy and Successful 2015 ?!Note concernant XFCE
Avant de lancer RWC pour la 1ère fois, s.v.p. aller à "Paramètres du
bureau", choisir n'importe quel fond d'écran et définir un type
d'affichage autre que "Auto". À moins que vous ne l'ayez déjà fait...
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Note concernant ROX + Wbar-2.3.x
S.v.p. ne pas utiliser Wbar-2.3.x avec le style "Paver" dans
l'environnement ROX, car Wbar ne sera pas rafraîchi correctement.
Par contre, l'utilisation de Wbar-2.2.2 ne pose aucun problème.
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BFN.
musher0
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P.S. Also, I think I saw a typo in the first line of the English: "dekstop" instead of "desktop", or something like that.
musher0
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Thank you Musher0.
Yeah, I implemented the possibility to have multilanguage readmes between 1.7 and 1.7.1...and forgot to mention about it.
Typo corrected as well.
v1.7.2
All the best in new year for you, too.
Greetings!
Yeah, I implemented the possibility to have multilanguage readmes between 1.7 and 1.7.1...and forgot to mention about it.
Typo corrected as well.
v1.7.2
All the best in new year for you, too.
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Hello SFR,SFR wrote:v1.7.2
A Francophone user suggested interesting changes.
So I would like to submit you a version 1.7.3Médor wrote:Il serait intéressant d'avoir directement un bouton Info intégré dans l'interface pour afficher le fichier README_"$LANG" ainsi que la traduction de Ramdom Wallpaper Changer en sous-titre (comme dans TAS).
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# 20150118 v1.7.3 by ASRI # add button help # add APP* variables # add SUBTITLE in main GUI
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Hey Robin
RWC has nothing to do with screensaver/DPMS - it does control only desktop background.
Screen blanking is managed via Menu -> Desktop -> PupX -> Screensaver.
Btw, if you're intrested in a fullscreen random slideshow, which gets triggered after certain time of user's inactivity, check out SlideSaver.tar.gz on the previous page.
But in this case you also need to disable screen blanking on your own.
Greetings!
RWC has nothing to do with screensaver/DPMS - it does control only desktop background.
Screen blanking is managed via Menu -> Desktop -> PupX -> Screensaver.
Btw, if you're intrested in a fullscreen random slideshow, which gets triggered after certain time of user's inactivity, check out SlideSaver.tar.gz on the previous page.
But in this case you also need to disable screen blanking on your own.
Greetings!
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Thanks. I'll have a look at that.SFR wrote: Btw, if you're intrested in a fullscreen random slideshow, which gets triggered after certain time of user's inactivity, check out SlideSaver.tar.gz
I had got the impression that RWC was a more recent version of SlideSaver - probably because I came on things in the wrong order - via Google.
...R
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Re: Random Wallpaper Changer
Hi people and SFR.SFR wrote:Ok, I knew it was going to end up like that; I just couldn't resist to "GtkDialog'ize" it.
I tried to make this app as "foolproof" as possible, and hope it will work well for others too.
Works in latest Lupu + briefly tested in Slacko and Wary.
UPDATE 2012-05-06: v1.1 - few bugfixes
UPDATE 2012-05-06: v1.2 - better handling of special characters in filenames
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EDIT: The lastest version (RWC-1.6.5) is attached >>>HERE<<<.
Greetings!
I'm novice in Linux. All I managed to do is to install the .pet of the RWC.
But... how can I execute it? Did not find the file...
Could you help me please?