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 f…

It is a great idea and was something we were considering including. Unfortunately we have just run out of time. However if someone creates a budgie applet I am more than happy to showcase this in budgie welcome and allow it to be easily installed.

Can you also add the ability to have two different wallpapers on a dual screen setup :smile: Or one wide one spreading across the two screens.

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 app…

wondering if nitrogen can be used to put wallpapers on different screens https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2001922

If we really want to go all the way with this live wallpapers would be great too :laughing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/

Just for fun: @Gabb1995 I don’t know if you are “in” for a bit of adventure, but look here: https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/experimental/blob/master/wallpaper_show/wallpapertest.vala , where we are working on a version of a wallpaper switcher in Vala. This is of course just the engine, but you can …

I will definetely try it out tomorrow and see what I find :slight_smile: thanks.

Just tested it and it works fine!

Ah, great! Thanks for confirming.

[Request] A default way for changing wallpaper every few minutes

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vlijm April 30, 2018, 7:57am 3

I was actually (more then) half way, but indeed ran out of time. Nice suggestion.

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[Request] A default way for changing wallpaper every few minutes

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