Create Background Slideshow (CreBS) 0.9.3 Released

Written for Create Background Slideshow by Marc Stewart on 2010-06-07

Create Background Slideshow 0.9.3 offers greater desktop integration, appearing in Nautilus's right-click menu as an "Open with Create Background Slideshow" option for JPEG, PNG, GIF, and SVG images, as well as XML files—the format used for slideshows—and combinations of those file types, making it even quicker to start creating your next wallpaper set.

In use, a file-overwrite warning will now prompt you if you try to create a second slideshow with the same filename, preventing accidental loss, while transitions can now be specified in tenths of a second.

A swathe of command-line options have also been added, adding configuration flexibility and usefulness as a script-driven tool. For example, to re-scan a folder and use all images as the wallpaper set, changing every hour, run:
crebs -gq -d 3600 -n "Slideshow Name" /path/to/folder/*
Adding a command like this to your login scripts will keep your wallpaper updated as you add images to the folder over time. And, with 14 options available, a whole lot more is now possible too—run crebs --help for details.

About Create Background Slideshow:―
The GNOME desktop is able to use a sequence of images for its background wallpaper, changing them automatically over time, but does not include an interface for specifying which images should constitute such a slideshow. Create Background Slideshow (CreBS) is a small Python/GTK application that provides such an interface, saving users from having to manually edit XML files.