I would love a way to have desktop wallpaper changing every few minutes using the budgie dekstop settings instead of installing a 3rd party application such as Variety. I don’t know if this could maybe be added to 18.04?
The basic settings would be the directory you want the images to be selected from, the amount of minutes, and maybe a shuffle?
Interesting thought. Only option I see to have multiple wallpapers on multiple screens
is basically on the method of this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/531519/different-wallpapers-on-multiple-monitors/534589#534589. Could be done, but if screens are not similar/top-aligned, it would need the applet to make some calculation on where to put the images in the spanning screeensize. Again, could be done, and will probably get to it, unless someone knows an easier option.
cd into its directory and run valac --pkg gio-2.0 ./wallpapertest.vala
A new file was created: wallpapertes. Run it with the wallpaper-directory and the time (seconds) as arguments, e.g.:
/path/to/wallpapertest /folder/with/images 300
to make it switch every 5 minutes.
If it works as you like, add it to Startup Applications, or…
Wait a while, then it will be available as an applet
Just out of curiosity : it was totally feasible in previous ubuntu version. You just had to add your pictures in /usr/share/backgrounds and modify the contest.xml file ( if I can trust my memory ).
Today in 18.04 if you add some pictures to usr/share/backgrounds/Budgie they won’t appear in Settings/Backgrounds and no way to set a path to a chosen folder for images. Only ~/Pictures is shown.
Why such a visible thing as desktop background has become so « closed » ?
( + same kind of « problems » with Lightdm background, if you chose some personal picture through login-screen app’ it’s not updated in Settings/Background )
Now I did not test this : what could happen if I create a ~/.local/share/backgrounds/budgie folder ?
[later] → nothing…
It’s so strange not to be able to manage backgrounds from Settings/Backgrounds…
Gnome expects your own pictures to be in the local pictures. Fiddling around with stuff in the /usr area is for package maintainers.
The log in window is not gnome … that is deliberate since gnome gdm3 is a massive memory hog under budgie. Slick greeter is managed by the menu option Login Window
They all are. But it seems Gnome did not expect subfolders in Pictures folder. Really ?
I know. But still : shouldn’t settings made in Login Windows be « backported » to dconf ? Actually they are not.
And why adding pictures to usr/share/backgrounds/Budgie don’t make them available in Settings/Backgrounds ? Is each picture’s path hardcoded elsewhere ?
I can’t really say why gnome does stuff. It just does.
Stuff in backgrounds and backgrounds/budgie needs also to amend the associated XML file in those folders. That is how the gnome backgrounds stuff works.
Slick greeter works with a config file not dconf. Not sure what you mean by backporting. If you mean trying to get slick to work with Gnome backgrounds then sure … a patch needs to be suggested on the upstream mint project.
have a look in /usr/share/gnome-background-properties
Not really understanding what you mean by “carried over to dconf” - what process is supposed to copy the values of the Login Window slick greeter config file to the slick-greeter dconf?