{"id":1601,"date":"2013-09-10T07:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2013-09-10T07:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:44:31","slug":"easily-create-desktop-slideshow-ubuntu-via-pictoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/easily-create-desktop-slideshow-ubuntu-via-pictoric\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Easily Create Desktop Slideshow in Ubuntu via Pictoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictoric is a simple utility for Ubuntu Unity to create a desktop slideshow out of the directory of your choice that contains either .jpg\/.jpeg or .png files for a given time interval that you choose. Your desktop slideshow will then be initiated and saved to be ready to go for subsequent logins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pictoric-desktop-slideshow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pictoric-desktop-slideshow.jpg\" alt=\"pictoric desktop slideshow ubuntu\" width=\"468\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pictoric-desktop-slideshow.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pictoric-desktop-slideshow-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just simple and efficient! To install it in Ubuntu, download and double-click to install the DEB via pop-up Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/pictoric\" title=\"Pictoric in Launchpad.net\" target=\"_blank\">Download Pictoric in Launchpad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also install this app from the PPA. Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal, then run below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:glacier-apps\/pictoric\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get install pictoric<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, you can open it from Unity Dash or in System Settings window.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictoric is a simple utility for Ubuntu Unity to create a desktop slideshow out of the directory of your choice that contains either .jpg\/.jpeg or .png files for a given time interval that you choose. Your desktop slideshow will then be initiated and saved to be ready to go for subsequent logins. Just simple and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[579,17,15,37],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-desktop-slideshow","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-13-04","tag-ubuntu-13-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}