Sharing a script for choosing your Trixie Desktop wallpaper

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Hi !

If you just switched to Trixie, you are very likely to be looking for your own customizations. Although the new theme looks nice, I have changed a few things myself, including the wallpaper and because there are many options, I just write a tiny script that helps choosing your favorite one very easily.

Here's the code. Just create a file like:

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touch wallpaper-select.sh

Make it executable with

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chmod +x wallpaper-select.sh

And finally copy the next lines in it and save

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#!/bin/bash

# This script will rotate all wallpapers from /usr/share/rpd-wallpapers
# let them displayed for 15 seconds each, and will do so indefinitely
# until killed with Ctrl-C

WALLPAPER_DIR="/usr/share/rpd-wallpaper"
DELAY=15 # seconds

while true; do
    for wallpaper in "$WALLPAPER_DIR"/*; do
        # echo "$wallpaper"
        pcmanfm --set-wallpaper "$wallpaper"
        sleep $DELAY
    done
done

Now you can execute the script, either by a double-click (chose execute in terminal) or from your terminal

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./wallpaper-select.sh

Minimize all your opened app windows so you can see your desktop freely and just drag your terminal window to a side so it won't bother you too much.

All the wallpaper files will now rotate as a slideshow so you can see which one you like more. When you're happy, just press CTRL+C or close the terminal window. The last wallpaper on screen is now your Desktop wallpaper.

Obviously you can add your own wallpapers in /usr/share/rpd-wallpapers or modify the path in the script to use another directory.

Have fun with Trixie !