new wallpaper

Tosick · 2008-12-13 13:16:17

Id like to put some other wallpapers together with the onces in /usr/share/backgrounds

How to..?

I just saw there is the same onces in /home/fric/images/wallpapers/shared/backgrounds???

So where should I put the ppictures to use as wallpaper?

Last edited by Tosick (2008-12-13 13:20:33)

Tosick · 2008-12-13 14:38:00

Yes....try and error..is fun:)
sudo thunar /usr/share/backgrounds

and the thunar windows opens and youu paste the pictures you like.

corenominal · 2008-12-13 16:30:30

Hi Tosick smile

The default menu entry for Nitrogen is set to scan for image files sitting in ~/images/wallpapers. It scans recursively and so will find any images within any directories below this directory. Therefore you should be able to dump any wallpapers into your wallpapers directory, it is not necessary to put them in /usr/share/backgrounds, unless you want other users on your system to able to access them.

Hope this helps. smile

ghoti · 2008-12-13 17:24:25

Hi Tosick,

I often use photos that I have taken as backgrounds, and instead of moving one picture at a time to /usr/share/backgrounds or in ~/images/wallpapers, I have created a symbolic link to my photos directory in /usr/share/backgrounds. Since I'm the only user on this computer, it doesn't matter if the link is in /usr/share/backgrounds or in ~/images/wallpapers. So here's what I did:

sudo ln -s /mnt/data/photos/ /usr/share/backgrounds/

Note that since my Archlinux crash, I keep all my files in a separate ntfs partition that I call data, and only keep configuration file in my home directory. So in your case, just replace /mnt/data/photos/ by the directory you use to store your photos.

Alternatively, you can create a symbolic link to your photos and put it in ~/images/wallpapers as:

ln -s /path/to/your/photos/ ~/images/wallpapers

sudo is not necessary here for ~/images/wallpapers. In this case, other users would not have access to your photos as backgrounds.

Hope this helps,
Ghoti cool

Tosick · 2008-12-13 21:07:23

This is going to be real fun,
Thanks a lot to both of you.:D

Hmm.... you dont happens have an idee of I could get this nice little KDE-window with a slideshow on the screen aswell.
Yes I know that this is not in line with Openbox, but Id like to have both........;)

ghoti · 2008-12-13 23:32:18

Tosick wrote:

Hmm.... you dont happens have an idee of I could get this nice little KDE-window with a slideshow on the screen aswell.
Yes I know that this is not in line with Openbox, but Id like to have both........;)

Sorry I can't be of any help here, as I don't use KDE on any of my Linux installations.

Ghoti cool

corenominal · 2008-12-15 04:28:28

Tosick wrote:

Hmm.... you dont happens have an idee of I could get this nice little KDE-window with a slideshow on the screen aswell.
Yes I know that this is not in line with Openbox, but Id like to have both........;)

Hello Tosick smile

I have written a script which will turn a desktop into a slideshow. It is probably nothing like the KDE application, but I think it is more in-keeping with the minimalist Openbox way of doing things. See: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … allpapers/

Tosick · 2008-12-15 21:14:44

Thanks alot, corenominal.:)

This is going to be real fun.
As I got fired to day.:(
I need someting that will keep me happy.
.
Its better to young, healthy and rich, then tosick.:|

Tosick · 2008-12-19 20:26:06

Sorry for being late to evaluate your script.

I had some errors. Perhaps you have remove the script.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install rotate-wallpaper
.........
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package rotate-wallpaper
hc@hc:~$
hc@hc:~$

corenominal · 2008-12-19 21:42:56

Tosick wrote:

This is going to be real fun.
As I got fired to day.:(
I need someting that will keep me happy.

I am really sorry to hear that. sad Hopefully you will find a new and better job soon!

Tosick wrote:

I had some errors. Perhaps you have remove the script.

Hmm, I am not too sure why you are having trouble, the package is definitely still available. If you continue to have problems, you can download it directly from: http://crunchbang.net/packages-8.10.xx/ … .2_all.deb

Hope this helps. smile

Tosick · 2008-12-20 07:05:48

The install of the deb-file went well.

So I enter :
rotate-wallpaper --path ~/images/serieA
and that seams also to go well.

But when I enter the
crontab -e
a end less amount of lines with one blue "~" is printed.

However I continue in an other window:
hc@hc:~$ */5 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 rotate-wallpaper -p ~/images/serieA
bash: network/5: is a directory
hc@hc:~$

Where is the misstakes?

Would you prefer to continue where the appl note is?

Tosick · 2008-12-20 07:07:32

you can download it directly from: http://crunchbang.net/packages-8.10.xx/ … .2_all.deb

Im using 8.04.
Is this a problem?

Tosick · 2008-12-20 07:10:16

Hmmm.....at least the first shift of wallpaper has happened.
So something has to be right.:)

corenominal · 2008-12-20 07:23:26

Tosick wrote:

But when I enter the
crontab -e
a end less amount of lines with one blue "~" is printed.

The blue ~ marks are Vim's way of showing non-existent lines, it is nothing to worry about. I am not sure a forum post is the best place to try and explain the workings of Vim, besides others have already done it far better than I could. If it helps, you can change the system EDITOR to nano by entering this terminal command:

export EDITOR=nano

And then create your crontab entry:

crontab -e

Hope this helps. smile

Tosick · 2008-12-20 07:42:54

The blue ~ marks are Vim's way of showing non-existent lines, it is nothing to worry about.

If it isnt a problem a remain with the terminal I know (better).

I enter:
crontab -e
rotate-wallpaper --path ~/images/serieA

E33: No previous substitute regular expression

Tosick · 2009-01-09 15:00:54

No,i am sorry but my skill is not enough to make this work.
I try however something simular for Ubuntu, called "Wallpapoz".
Works nice....but not in #!8.04.
http://wallpapoz.akbarhome.com/

Do you think it can work?
How can I install missing Dependencies that is not found in the Package Manager?
Dependencies
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you run modern distro (released in 2005 year and above) with default Gnome
desktop installed, your dependencies should already be fulfilled. It needs
PyGtk, Python Glade, PIL (Python Imaging Library), and optionally Python Gnome to function.

CrunchBang Linux

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