You can set amazing flicker photos as your wallpaper automatically. A great programme ?called webilder will help you to do this. You can select wallpapers based on tags,users,interestingness etc … You can add as many albums as you want. A new photo set will download every day. Rotate wallpaper every 5 minutes or you can change that.
Webilder Features
- download flickr photos that match tags (for example: beach,party)
- download photos from flickr users of your choice.
- download most interesting photos from flickr.
- download amazing daily proshots from Webshots (requires Webshots account).
- automatically download new photos for you.
- change your wallpaper every few minutes.
- import webshots collections (wbz or wbc formats).
Installation on Fedora 13
There is no direct rpm available so you want to install from source
The dependencies are must (Python, python-gtk2)
Then Download Webilder 0.6.9: Webilder-0.6.9.tar.gz.
Extract
on command line as super user
tar xzf Webilder-0.6.9.tar.gz cd Webilder-0.6.9 sudo python setup.py install --install-data=/usr
Will work fine no problem..
Installation on Ubuntu 10.04
Just download the deb. http://www.webilder.org/static/downloads/webilder_0.6.9-1_all.deb
- Install dependencies, according to your distribution:
- Debian or Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-imaging python-setuptools sudo apt-get install python-gnome2 libglib2.0-0 python-gnomeapplet gettext
- Gentoo:
emerge pygtk gnome-python gnome-python-desktop libgnomeui gnome-python-extras dev-python/imaging
- Debian or Ubuntu:
- Extract the archive and install it. You’ll only need root permissions for the last command:
tar xzf Webilder-0.6.9.tar.gz cd Webilder-0.6.9 sudo python setup.py install --install-data=/usr
After installation completes, continue to Running Webilder.
Running Webilder
After installing Webilder, you should add it to your panel, so it can automatically download photos and change your wallpaper:
- GNOME Users: Right-click on the GNOME panel, choose “Add to panel”, and select “Webilder Webshots Applet”. If it is not in the list – log off and log in again.
Users who prefer the command line, can run webilder_desktop
to configure Webilder and manage their photos. It is also possible to start photo downloading from the command line by starting webilder_downloader
.
Tip: Download full pages of Webshots photos by clicking on the ‘Download Page’ at Webshots’ website. (new in version 0.6.9)
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