Change of wallpaper is not working

lefoid · 2012-06-18 12:17:31

Hi all,

I try to have my wallpaper changing every 10 minutes.
It's not working.

When I change the settings, it changes the 1st wallpaper after 10 minutes (as normal),
and then it keeps the same wallpaper, without any change.

If I change the time, let say to 9 minutes, and back to 10 minutes, same situation as
above.

I am using Xfce 4.10 on Funtoo.

Thanks for your help.

stqn · 2012-06-19 17:02:03

I think other people have reported this problem already. If you want you could use a bash script I made to change my wallpapers, or a variant of it anyway…

Full version is on the Arch forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1097196

And a simpler version could be…

#!/bin/bash
d=~/images/wallpapers
delay=1800
cd $d
list=($(find . -type f | shuf))
index=0
while true; do
  pic=${list[$index]}
  xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s $d/$pic
  sleep $delay
  index=$((index+1))
  if (( index == ${#list[*]} )); then
    index=0
  fi
done

ozjd · 2012-06-20 02:01:41

I have seen this occasionally. Logging out and back in has fixed for me each time.

lefoid · 2012-06-20 09:59:01

Thanks to all.
I am going to try stqn' script.
To ozjd, it's not occasionally, it's permanent. Your method
didn't work for me.

Sideburns · 2012-06-21 00:15:11

I've been using Wallpapoz on both my desktop and my laptop for several years, now, with good effect. I originally planned to have a different wallpaper for each workspace, but ended up with the same, randomly-cycling wallpaper on each.

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Change of wallpaper is not working

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