Fri, 27/04/2012 - 10:51 | 
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Wallch is an automatic wallpaper changer that works with GNOME 3 (and Unity). It features desktop/sound notifications, random image and time changing, live earth wallpaper (a 'live' picture of the earth updated every half hour), taking screenshots or webcam image.
The application also comes with Unity launcher support, so you can start or stop Wallch, select the next or previous wallpaper or start the live earth wallpaper from the Unity launcher:
Thu, 05/04/2012 - 20:56 | webupd8.org
In the Ubuntu 12.04 community wallpapers post, I was telling you about some plans to provide packages for the wallpapers in each Ubuntu version. Well, as it turns out, this hasn't been postponed after all and an updated "ubuntu-wallpapers" package has landed in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin which lets you install the community wallpapers from Ubuntu Karmic, Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric and obviously, Precise.
You can either get the wallpapers from a specific Ubuntu version by installing the "ubuntu-wallpapers-UBUNTU-VERSION" package (example: ubuntu-wallpapers-karmic), or all the wallpapers from Karmic to Precise, by using the following command:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-wallpapers-karmic ubuntu-wallpapers-lucid ubuntu-wallpapers-maverick ubuntu-wallpapers-natty ubuntu-wallpapers-oneiric ubuntu-wallpapers-preciseThe "ubuntu-wallpapers" package has just been updated and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin now includes wallpapers from the community contest as well as the new default wallpaper:
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| Ubuntu 12.04 default wallpaper |
Thu, 05/04/2012 - 12:17 | ubuntuvibes.com
New wallpapers package has been uploaded to Ubuntu 12.04 repositories and you will soon get them as an update.
The default wallpaper, as you can see in screenshot above has subtle differences then last one and now has a more orange tone to it.
New community wallpapers are also available (click the image).
Congratulations to all the winners of Wallpaper Contest.
Thu, 22/12/2011 - 16:48 | webupd8.org
"XML Animated Background Creator" is a Nautilus script to easily generate XML wallpaper slideshows (wallpapers that change automatically) for GNOME 3.
There used to be many such applications for GNOME 2, but they can't change the background anymore because they still use GConf, while the background settings are now stored in DConf. And since XML Animated Background Creator is easy to use and install on any Linux distribution, I've upgraded it to work with GNOME 3 (it works with any "shell": Unity, GNOME Shell, fallback session).
To install XML Animated Background Creator, download the Nautilus script, extract it in your home folder and run the following commands in a terminal:
cd ~/XMLBACK
./install.sh
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Tags: eyecandy, fedora, gnome 3, Linux, nautilus script, slideshow, ubuntu, wallpapers
Thu, 10/11/2011 - 18:06 | webupd8.org
Gmail has launched a new design recently and the themes were updated with some beautiful backgrounds. WebUpd8 reader Dmitry Shachnev has discovered that you can download these backgrounds so you can use them as desktop wallpapers.
The wallpapers come in different sizes: 1050x600, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 (might be others too). Here are a few of these Gmail wallpapers (posted only as previews, don't try to download them - see below):
Fri, 30/09/2011 - 08:00 | ubuntuvibes.com
14 beautiful community submitted wallpapers have landed in Oneiric. These submissions are part of a wallpaper contest which is held every six months where winners can get their wallpapers featured in next Ubuntu release.
Congratulations to all the winners !!
Sun, 11/09/2011 - 15:56 | webupd8.org
Wally is a cross-platform wallpaper changer which uses multiple sources for getting the images: local folders, Flickr, Google, Yahoo!, Panoramio, DeviantArt, Vladstudio, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, and Smugmug images.
- change wallpaper manually / automatically (on a given interval)
- rotate images according to EXIF information
- set wallpaper position (centered, tiled, etc.)
- you can set downloaded photos to be at least 1/4, 3/4 or larger than the desktop size
- stores downloaded images on the disk so you can use them later on
- more
Wally 2.4.2 was released a few days ago, finally getting GNOME3/GNOME Shell support. Also, the Bing module was removed because apparently Microsoft didn't accept Wally's way of using Bing.
Thu, 14/07/2011 - 13:53 | webupd8.org
