how to change the desktop wallpaper automatically?

Question

is there any software like webshots for Ubuntu .Which is used to change desktop wallpaper automatically in certain time stamp in windows

Answer 1

Webilder is a webshots-like program for Ubuntu. It will cycle images as your desktop wallpaper. Also, you could try running webshots under WINE. Here's a tutorial of how to do that.

Answer 2

I'm running RedHat, but since its gnome it should be the same as ubuntu. The following command, run in a scheduled script, makes my desktop wallpaper update:

gconftool-2 --set "/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename" --type string "/path/to/your/picture.jpg"

Earlier I did this by running "$ gnome-background-properties" but that popped up an annoying window.

Answer 3

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=6517 has a lead on how to change the wallpaper from the command line:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/compiz/plugins/wallpaper/screen0/options/images --type list --list-type string "[file:/path/to/first.png:100,file:/path/to/second.png:100]"

(no promises; I cut-n-pasted it)

It seems to me you could call this gconftool-2 program via "at" or "cron" to get the functionality you're looking for.

You would need to ensure, of course, that the DISPLAY environment variable and probably a few others were set correctly, so maybe making a script in your bin directory called maybe set_wallpaper or similar would be the way to go.

Hope this helps! -Paul