‘Wallpaper Gallery’ is a Shotwell friendly wallpaper changer for Ubuntu

Like wet Gremlins snacking after midnight, there are some categories of apps where the amount of choice available borders on crazy .

Wallpaper changing applications are very much of this breed, so what makes ‘Wallpaper Gallery’ – a new ‘timed wallpaper changer’ app for Ubuntu – more Gizmo and less manic Mogwai?

Shotwell.

Features

It’s the headline feature and one that really sold this app to me; I have a large library of images in Shotwell and rather than make me sift through them Wallpaper Gallery only asks me to select tag(s) – and does the rest.



Other features/options present include: -

• View and edit Shotwell image title
• Overlay image title on wallpaper
• Set random or sequential image display
• Specify transition rate
• Ability to exclude images smaller than screen size
• Set program to auto-run on login

Download

Adding the application from PPA is easy. Open a new Terminal session and enter: -

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olmecs/ppa
• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wallpapergallery

Alternatively grab a .deb package @ launchpad.net/~olmecs/+archive/ppa/+packages

Related posts:

1. Indicator-wallpaper changer anyone?
2. Shotwell 0.8 adds YouTube uploading, folder watching, wallpaper slideshows, more
3. Shotwell 0.5.0 Released – Gains Tagging, Picasa web support, more

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