Open Source Wallpaper Apps

Desktop wallpaper management application for Gnome. Cortina changes wallpapers by time. It works as an tray application with an configuration interface. It works great under Ubuntu Lucid and all other gnome using distributions.Cortina is a lightweigh Repository: ppa:cs-sniffer/cortina http://ppa.launchpad.net/cs-sniffer/cortina/ubuntu

SyncWall is quite a basic wallpaper changer with a special feature, it is the ability to synchronize wallpaper change between several workstations with a basic (and unsecured) client/server protocol. Each workstation must share the same pool of files, there is no FTP or Internet download. Because SyncWall is written with Qt, SyncWall runs on Windows and Linux (MacOSX isn't tested yet).

A random wallpaper generator which places photos randomly or tiled on the background with new photos being added at specified intervals.

BgChanger is a simple set of python scripts adding wallpaper rotation functionality to gnome. It is designed to be *simple* above all else. No complicated menus or options. Add images and change options for bgchanger via terminal or included gui.

Dynamic wallpaper is based on weather-wallpaper and generates svg wallpaper based on current weather, season, time of day and others. It supports themes. The intended use is for GNOME desktop and will probably work on KDE.

Subtly changes the color of the GNOME desktop over time ― so slowly that it won't be noticed. This is a good alternative to placing a wallpaper.

Change the Desktop wallpaper for GNome. The latest version with dir recursion included for all the images in the directories. Do visit my website at http://amit-agarwal.co.in

Application to automatic set up cut-panoramic photos as wallpaper CZ: Aplikace na automatické nastavování výřezů panoramatických fotografií jako tapety

Splatter will change your Gnome desktop wallpaper every so often to a random one in the list of available wallpapers you have added to Gnome. Download it, run it, voila! Pretty simple, eh?

A program to change personal Desktop-Wallpaper from a file folder. For use on Linux-Distributions with Gnome2-Desktop.

Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits on the GNOME panel. It gives you a random wallpaper from a chosen directory at logon, on a timer, and allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu.

Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Panoramio, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.

Webcamgrab randomly pulls a JPG image from a user maintained list of webcams and saves it to a specific file and location. Since the file name and location do not change, it can be selected for wallpaper. Written in Python 2.6, For Linux only, You will need to install or have installed Python and lynx (your Linux distro should offer them), I am using webcamgrab in Gnome 2. It should work with any GUI which lets you select a JPG for wallpaper, Can be launched once at start up or manually if desired. For true elegance can be launched using cron or Evolution's calendar or other timed launcher however often you like (I use Evolution's calendar and it works fine), webcamgrab is not interactive - once configured you can leave it alone. Assumed path names are /usr/bin for lynx and ~/Public for webcamgrab's files. If you would change these paths just modify the Python code in webcamgrab.py with the text editor of your choice. More detail in the included documentation.

Script which downloads current and future POTD from Wikimedia Commons, adds a summary caption to the bottom, and sets as desktop background image for gnome. Can also be setup on a server to download images any desired time of the day then mirror them for faster retrival from personal devices on the LAN. Has been tested on Ubuntu. Could be used on a RaspberryPi powered digital picture frame. Need to impliment auto cleanup for old images. Please leave feedback & suggestions for improvement!

A simple wallpaper changer for GNOME 2 and JDS.

A small wallpaper changer with installer, integrates with Gnome and Mate-Desktop, changing wallpaper between 1 and 5 minutes in a random way. It is easy to configure by removing the conf file, you get asked to point the program to a wallpaper folder. Wallpaper folder can be any, if filled with jpg files. If you support family members pc you can surprise them with this program to rotate nice photographs on their desktop. Companies can rotate information on the desktop this way. It's small, some kind of hidden and doesn't take much effort to install. Enjoy!!

Change your GNOME wallpaper automatically in an easy way with this application. You can add/remove the wallpapers you want to rotate and the order in what they are shown.

A perl script that can change the GNOME background ("wallpaper") in real-time at user-defined intervals. It scans a list of user-defined directories for images with known file extensions, and selects one at random to display.