As you may know, Variety is an app indicator that changes the desktop wallpaper, using automatically downloaded images from: Wallhaven.cc, Flickr, Wallpapers.net, Desktoppr, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
It works well on the most popular desktop environments: Unity, Gnome Shell, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment, Cinnamon, Mate and Pantheon.
The latest version available is Variety 0.5.5, which has been recently, released, coming with many improvements:
- Bumped the version to 0.5.5
- Updated translation files
- Added some more default image sources
- Disable Latest source by default, put NSFW warning in description
- set_wallpaper: Fix support for KDE Plasma 5
- Fixed minor typo in Add Reddit dialog
Installation instructions:
Up to date packages are available via the developer’s PPA, so installing the software on Ubuntu systems is easy. Add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the variety package:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install variety
Optional, to remove variety, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove variety
The installation instructions should work on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint 6, Peppermint 5, LXLE 14.04 and Linux Lite 2.