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

Install Variety Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/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.

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
Download source for other distributions

Install SlideWall Live Wallpapers App in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint 13/12

Install Live Wallpapers App in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint 13/12

Slidewall is an wallpaper changer for Unity desktop. Created with Unity in mind Slidewall is fun, simple and quite fast. With great features it will be a pleasure to use this app.

Some people like wallpapers in their desktop, This SlideWall shows live clocks with different designed wallpapers which looks really cool. This Application also shows wallpapers slideshow. SlideWall checked in Unity, Gnome Shell Environment, but you can check in other environments. Previously shared Wallach wallpaper changer, which change wallpapers after sometime.

ScreenShots

Here are some Screenshot of live wallpapers.

Here you can find more clock Live Wallpapers for SlideWall with different resolutions.

To install SlideWall in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fioan89/slidewall
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install slidewall

That's it, Enjoy

Source: Launchpad fioan89