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Rotating Backgrounds with Drapes

Dec 08, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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KDE alternative?

DeepDiver's picture
Submitted by DeepDiver (not verified) on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 03:17.

Hi,

@Shawn:
thanks a lot for all these little funny features you reveal to us - THX.

@Drapes:
Anybody knows a KDE 4 alternative?

THX,

Tom

[SOLVED] ...

DeepDiver's picture
Submitted by DeepDiver (not verified) on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 04:38.

... just found the solution myself.
It is part of the background settings in KDE4.

HOW-TO:
right click on the desktop background.
there is a context menu entry like 'Settings ..' (I run German localization - just a fuzzy translation ;-))
Within this setting dialog popping up you can choose a type like slide show.

Some more cool types are available as well like marble and the weather ...

Take care and keep rocking,

Tom

alternative

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Submitted by SlickMcRunFast (not verified) on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 01:59.

Looking for something not Mono based try sudo apt-get install wallpaper-tray

Ubuntu 9.10 not working

Pete Schmitt's picture
Submitted by Pete Schmitt (not verified) on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 14:40.

I installed this on both my 9.10 laptop and workstation. I get a "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:DrapesApplet". So it won't start for me.

Not the applet

Djiezes's picture
Submitted by Djiezes (not verified) on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 04:57.

Just run the application, do not use the gnome applet. The applet hasn't worked for years, but the ordinary application does work just fine.

Really?

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 18:46.

Huh, I'm running it on 9.10 on 2 desktops and my laptop... I demoed on 9.04 in a VM, but on my actual systems I'm using 9.10.

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Yes, Really

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Submitted by Pete Schmitt (not verified) on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 07:15.

The workstation was an upgrade from 9.04 and the laptop was a fresh install of 9.10. I'll try it on a couple more systems today.

Failed to start 100% of time

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Submitted by Pete Schmitt (not verified) on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 11:20.

I've now tried in on 4 systems, 1 was a laptop, another a 32bit workstation, yet another was a 64-bit workstation and the last a Virtualbox (32bit) installs of Ubuntu 9.10. All failed to start with the same problem as stated above.

This is such a wanted and

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 22:25.

This is such a wanted and utilized feature. It is amazing to me that Gnome hasn't incorporated it into the desktop. Even Windows finally put it in Win 7.

But we wouldn't want to confuse all those Gnome users would we?

LOVE

Shawn Powers's picture
Submitted by Shawn Powers on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 12:32.

I really do love this program. I'm surprised it's not a feature in Gnome too. :)

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter

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