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Automatically Change Wallpapers in Linux with Little Simple Wallpaper Changer
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**Brief: Here is a tiny script that automatically changes wallpaper at regular intervals in your Linux desktop.**
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As the name suggests, LittleSimpleWallpaperChanger is a small script that changes the wallpapers randomly at intervals.
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Now I know that there is a random wallpaper option in the ‘Appearance’ or the ‘Change desktop background’ settings. But that randomly changes the pre-installed wallpapers and not the wallpapers that you add.
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So in this article, we’ll be seeing how to set up a random desktop wallpaper setup consisting of your photos using LittleSimpleWallpaperChanger.
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### Little Simple Wallpaper Changer (LSWC)
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[LittleSimpleWallpaperChanger][1] or LSWC is a very lightweight script that runs in the background, changing the wallpapers from the user-specified folder. The wallpapers change at a random interval between 1 to 5 minutes. The software is rather simple to set up, and once set up, the user can just forget about it.
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![Little Simple Wallpaper Changer to change wallpapers in Linux][2]
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#### Installing LSWC
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Download LSWC by [clicking on this link.][3] The zipped file is around 15 KB in size.
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* Browse to the download location.
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* Right click on the downloaded .zip file and select ‘extract here’.
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* Open the extracted folder, right click and select ‘Open in terminal’.
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* Copy paste the command in the terminal and hit enter.
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`bash ./README_and_install.sh`
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* Now a dialogue box will pop up asking you to select the folder containing the wallpapers. Click on it and then select the folder that you’ve stored your wallpapers in.
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* That’s it. Reboot your computer.
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![Little Simple Wallpaper Changer for Linux][4]
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#### Using LSWC
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On installation, LSWC asks you to select the folder containing your wallpapers. So I suggest you create a folder and move all the wallpapers you want to use there before we install LSWC. Or you can just use the ‘Wallpapers’ folder in the Pictures folder. **All the wallpapers need to be .jpg format.**
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You can add more wallpapers or delete the current wallpapers from your selected folder. To change the wallpapers folder location, you can edit the location of the wallpapers in the
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following file.
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```
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.config/lswc/homepath.conf
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```
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#### To remove LSWC
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Open a terminal and run the below command to stop LSWC
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```
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pkill lswc
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```
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Open home in your file manager and press ctrl+H to show hidden files, then delete the following files:
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* ‘scripts’ folder from .local
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* ‘lswc’ folder from .config
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* ‘lswc.desktop’ file from .config/autostart
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There you have it. How to create your own desktop background slideshow. LSWC is really lightweight and simple to use. Install it and then forget it.
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LSWC is not very feature rich but that intentional. It does what it intends to do and that is to change wallpapers. If you want a tool that automatically downloads wallpapers try [WallpaperDownloader][5].
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Do share your thoughts on this nifty little software in the comments section below. Don’t forget to share this article. Cheers.
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via: https://itsfoss.com/little-simple-wallpaper-changer/
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作者：[Aquil Roshan][a]
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选题：[lujun9972](https://github.com/lujun9972)
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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[a]:https://itsfoss.com/author/aquil/
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[1]:https://github.com/LittleSimpleWallpaperChanger/lswc
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[2]:https://4bds6hergc-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Little-simple-wallpaper-changer-2-800x450.jpg
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[3]:https://github.com/LittleSimpleWallpaperChanger/lswc/raw/master/Lswc.zip
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[4]:https://4bds6hergc-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Little-simple-wallpaper-changer-1-800x450.jpg
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[5]:https://itsfoss.com/wallpaperdownloader-linux/
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