Thursday, May 2, 2013

Variety Wallpaper changer for Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 14/13


Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use. It can automatically download wallpapers from various online sources, allows rotating them on a regular interval or on demand, and provides easy to use ways to separate the great images from the junk.

variety wallpaper changer

Ubuntu wallpaper changer

Ubuntu variety

variety wallpaper changer

Changes in this Variety 0.4.12:
  • Updated tips and changes txt
  • Bugfix: Save original wallpaper name when quotes are applied
  • Bugfix: a download was forcing the thumbs window to reshow when already hidden
  • Minor fix
  • Improvements related to image preparing; Minor bug-fixes
  • Trigger a download when too few images found; Livelier thumbs when showing folders, not only history and downloads (new downloads are auto-shown)
  • Merged in variety-instant-preferences
  • Fix: removed class Window was still referred at one place
  • Replaced some unnecessary timers with calls to GObject.timeout_add
  • Reordered prefs tabs. Command-line way to set options
  • Added UI preferences tab
  • Added Rating option to main menu - optional (off by default)
  • Added funtionality to set image ratings
  • Filtering by rating added; Preparations for adding simple functionality to rate images
  • Ensure wallpaper is changed even if the current background is a solid color in Gnome/Unity

To install Variety in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install variety
That's it
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