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#1 2011-07-22 15:20:05

Sideburns
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[Solved] Adding wallpapers

Normally, I use wallpapoz to manage my wallpaper, changing it every five minutes at random.  Suddenly, it's stopped working.  I've emailed the maintainer, but for now, all I can do to change the wallpaper is use the XFCE Desktop preferences.  How can I get that to point at my custom wallpapers?


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#2 2011-07-22 16:51:14

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Re: [Solved] Adding wallpapers

You should be able to add your own backgrounds to the /usr/share/backgrounds file.

Then, they should show up, as default, when you open the 'Desktop' settings link, from the right-click menu.

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#3 2011-07-22 17:01:43

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Re: [Solved] Adding wallpapers

Right now, I have a number of wallpapers in ~/Pictures that wallpapoz is supposed to use.  Normally, it does.  I take it, then, that there's no way to tell XFCE to look in that directory instead of /usr/share/background.  Wouldn't it be better if the Desktop settings had a Browse button?


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#4 2011-07-22 19:26:57

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Re: [Solved] Adding wallpapers

The list in desktop settings is populated with images from both /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops and (if it exists) ~/.local/share/xfce4/backdrops. Instead of copying over all your files from ~/Pictures to /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops, you could link ~/Pictures to ~/.local/share/xfce4/backdrops. Keep in mind that the desktop settings program suffers performance issues as the number of images in both those directories grow.


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#5 2011-07-22 19:36:42

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Re: [Solved] Adding wallpapers

Thanx.  I'll mark this as solved.


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