{"id":5710,"date":"2016-03-06T18:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2016-03-06T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T18:26:43","slug":"variety-wallpaper-changer-0-6-0-slideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/variety-wallpaper-changer-0-6-0-slideshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety Wallpaper Changer 0.6.0 Adds New Slideshow Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/variety-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5173\" alt=\"Variety Wallpaper Changer\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/variety-icon.png\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The open-source Variety wallpaper changer has reached the 0.6.0 release with a major new feature &#8211; Variety Slideshow.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Variety Slideshow allows you to create a slideshow as <i>desktop background<\/i>, <i>fullscreen screensaver<\/i>, or <i>in a normal window<\/i> with given wallpapers, time interval, and other parameters.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xIdPUFziZHc<\/p>\n<p>The slideshow can be installed as a standalone application, but the options are command-line only. Variety provides the configuration GUI in its Preferences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/variety-slideshow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/variety-slideshow-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"Variety Slideshow configurations\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/variety-slideshow-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/variety-slideshow-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/variety-slideshow.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 0.6.0 release also brings other small updates, and i3, openbox, Awesome WM support.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to Install Variety 0.6.0 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Variety has been made into the universe repositories. Just search for and install it via Software Center.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and derivatives, launch <b>terminal<\/b> and run below commands one by one to get it from PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi\/ppa\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install variety variety-slideshow<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab both <b>.deb<\/b> packages from the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~peterlevi\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\/+packages\" target=\"_blank\">PPA packages page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">via: <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevi.com\/variety\/2016\/02\/0-6-0-released-with-variety-slideshow\/\">peterlevi.com<\/a><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open-source Variety wallpaper changer has reached the 0.6.0 release with a major new feature &#8211; Variety Slideshow. Variety Slideshow allows you to create a slideshow as desktop background, fullscreen screensaver, or in a normal window with given wallpapers, time interval, and other parameters. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xIdPUFziZHc The slideshow can be installed as a standalone application, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1297,1097],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-variety","tag-wallpaper-changer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710","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=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}