i just moved to xfce in Ubuntu 12.04. Wallch 3.0 does not change wallpaper.

[Ignius Drake]

Notification pops up that says is has changed the wallpaper and even shows a little picture of the new wallpaper, but no change on desktop background. Works great in my gnome 3(classic-fallback), same system.

[Alex Solanos (hakermania)]

Hello Ignius and thanks for the bug report.

Wallch is designed to work for GNOME. Wallch 4.0 will work by default in GNOME, but there will be versions for different DEs as well (maybe at the default repositories, named wallch-xfce, wallch-etc, or as downloads at sourceforge etc)

[Ignius Drake (elespector)]

I look forward to the wallch-xfce. I really like Wallch. 300+ astronomy
pictures to look at! Is there a mailing list/notification system for
Wallch? Please advise when wallch-xfce is available!

Thanks alot!!!!

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Alex Solanos
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello Ignius and thanks for the bug report.
>
> Wallch is designed to work for GNOME. Wallch 4.0 will work by default in
> GNOME, but there will be versions for different DEs as well (maybe at
> the default repositories, named wallch-xfce, wallch-etc, or as downloads
> at sourceforge etc)
>
>
> ** Changed in: wallpaper-changer
> Status: New => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: wallpaper-changer
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Alex Solanos (hakermania)
>
> ** Changed in: wallpaper-changer
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1232601
>
> Title:
> i just moved to xfce in Ubuntu 12.04. Wallch 3.0 does not change
> wallpaper.
>
> Status in Wallch ( Wallpaper Changer ):
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Notification pops up that says is has changed the wallpaper and even
> shows a little picture of the new wallpaper, but no change on desktop
> background. Works great in my gnome 3(classic-fallback), same system.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/wallpaper-changer/+bug/1232601/+subscriptions
>

[Alex Solanos (hakermania)]

No, there isn't any mailing list, but you can check out our site regularly: http://wall-changer.sourceforge.net/

It will be updated once Wallch 4.0 is ready. Working on different DEs will be mentioned too, for sure.

We've aimed Wallch 4.0 for 14.04 (although it is almost ready we want to be sure it is bug free for the LTS release of Ubuntu), so you may expect it around that time. Testing versions for other DEs may come earlier, though, as it has been done with GNOME.

[Ignius Drake (elespector)]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:01:30 -0000
Alex Solanos <email address hidden> wrote:

> No, there isn't any mailing list, but you can check out our site
> regularly: http://wall-changer.sourceforge.net/
>
> It will be updated once Wallch 4.0 is ready. Working on different DEs
> will be mentioned too, for sure.
>
> We've aimed Wallch 4.0 for 14.04 (although it is almost ready we want
> to be sure it is bug free for the LTS release of Ubuntu), so you may
> expect it around that time. Testing versions for other DEs may come
> earlier, though, as it has been done with GNOME.
>

Just wanted to let you know that Xfce4.8 has a feature in Desktop
settings to change wallpaper at custom intervals.

But it does not display anywhere the name of the file being displayed,
a feature I really want because I sometimes want to Google the image
for more information. I always had to go through the directory and
identify visually the image, so I wrote a very small program to show
the image name. Not that it is anything near as sophisticated or with as
many features as Wallch, still my favorite.

Here it is:
run in terminal to see names

#!/bin/bash
# Display name of image being displayed and change background wallpaper.
# display duration in seconds
Wait=180
FILES=/home/pan/Downloads/images/*
for f in $FILES
do
  # $f display current file name
  echo "Displaying $f "
  # change wallpaper
  xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s $f
  # duration of background image
  sleep $Wait
done

Thanks for your rapid response!!!

Pan

[Alex Solanos (hakermania)]

Thanks for your script.

Wallch has a feature to open current image (it opens the directory on the file manager, if nautilus is install and it is running, then it selects the image using nautilus, as well). Does this fit your needs or you need to get image's filename?

[Ignius Drake (elespector)]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:49:31 -0000
Alex Solanos <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your script.
>
> Wallch has a feature to open current image (it opens the directory on
> the file manager, if nautilus is install and it is running, then it
> selects the image using nautilus, as well). Does this fit your needs
> or you need to get image's filename?
>

Getting the name is just a much desired option. Wallach displays the
image better than my script either through some prepossessing or maybe
image sizing or whatever, but frankly my script suffices for now.

I would be interested in seeing how nautilus would work. It is running
as I laid the xfce4 on top of my Ubuntu 12.04.

BTW, I too am waiting for the 14.04 lts.

Thanks you so very much for your attention to this matter.

Pan

[Alex Solanos (hakermania)]

I will consider adding an indicator entry which will display the current desktop image's name (not the full path, just the name of it).

Clicking on that entry will result nautilus (or any other file manager) opening the location of the image.

How does that sound to you?

[Ignius Drake (elespector)]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:05:07 -0000
Alex Solanos <email address hidden> wrote:

> I will consider adding an indicator entry which will display the
> current desktop image's name (not the full path, just the name of it).
>
> Clicking on that entry will result nautilus (or any other file
> manager) opening the location of the image.
>
> How does that sound to you?
>

That sounds great!!!

Actually, if one could grab the name of the image that would be what is
 needed for googling the image by name. Of course, if you open the
 location of the image, then one could google by image and/or name.
 Either or both would be very nice.

Pan

[Alex Solanos (hakermania)]

Ok, an entry with a submenu with options for the current image (Copy path, Copy name, Open Path, Delete) will be added soon :D

It will probably be available at the next PPA update. I think that the comments on this bug report have become off-topic though, so we better stop discussing this matter here.

[Ignius Drake (elespector)]

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:31:56 -0000
Alex Solanos <email address hidden> wrote:

> Ok, an entry with a submenu with options for the current image (Copy
> path, Copy name, Open Path, Delete) will be added soon :D
>
> It will probably be available at the next PPA update. I think that the
> comments on this bug report have become off-topic though, so we better
> stop discussing this matter here.
>

I certainlyl consider this all resolved and greatly appreciate your
attention to the matter.

[Leon Vitanos (leon-mellori)]

Hello i am cleaning up some wallch bugs, xfce support has been added long time ago.

Proof: http://i.imgur.com/ptegGzG.png

If you are still interested (after 2 years)
To add the PPA to your system and install the latest version of Wallch from it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wallch/wallch-daily
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wallch