Variety changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
Available in Debian 9+ and Ubuntu 16.04+, or via backports at https:/
NOTE: downloads have been moved to https:/
Variety changes the desktop wallpaper on a regular basis, using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
Variety sits conveniently as an indicator in the panel and can be easily paused and resumed. The mouse wheel can be used to scroll wallpapers back and forth until you find the perfect one for your current mood.
Apart from displaying images from local folders, several different online sources can be used to fetch wallpapers according to user-specified criteria.
Variety can also automatically apply various fancy filters to the displayed images - charcoal painting, oil painting, heavy blurring, etc. - so that your desktop is always fresh and unique. Applying a heavy blurring filter for example is a great way to get abstract-looking and unobtrusive, yet colorful wallpapers, similar in spirit to the default one in Ubuntu.
Variety was developed by Peter Levi as part of the Ubuntu App Showdown, June-July 2012
Variety was tested and runs on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Xubuntu 12.04, Lubuntu 12.04, Kubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon and MATE editions).
Debian/Ubuntu INSTALLATION:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install variety
Official website:
http://
Source code and development:
https:/
View full history Series and milestones
trunk series is the current focus of development.
All questions Latest questions
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How can Variety show quotes in different languages?
Posted on 2019-02-12 -
Image file name on wallpaper
Posted on 2018-11-12 -
Line breaks in quotations
Posted on 2018-08-09 -
Does Variety display images from folders within a folder?
Posted on 2018-08-02 -
Local quotes file - sign limit per quote
Posted on 2018-07-25
All packages Packages in Distributions
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variety source package in Xenial
Version 0.6.0-1 uploaded on 2016-02-22 -
variety source package in Sid
Version 0.7.1-1 uploaded on 2018-10-29 -
variety source package in Disco
Version 0.7.1-1 uploaded on 2018-10-29 -
variety source package in Cosmic
Version 0.7.0-1 uploaded on 2018-09-16 -
variety source package in Bionic
Version 0.6.7-1 uploaded on 2018-04-02
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1811494: 503 downloading earth wallpaper from Die.net
Reported on 2019-01-12 -
Bug #1811127: Wall paper selector not working
Reported on 2019-01-09 -
Bug #1810509: Clock
Reported on 2019-01-04 -
Bug #1799952: app closes when screen blacks out for inactivity or returning from sleep status
Reported on 2018-10-25 -
Bug #1795260: PLEASE SUBMIT NEW ISSUES AND FEATURE REQUESTS TO OUR GITHUB TRACKER - https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/issues
Reported on 2018-09-30
All blueprints Latest blueprints
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Filter images and quotes based on their appropriateness for a given environment
Registered on 2015-05-29
More contributors Top contributors
- Shinichirou Yamada 942 points
- Peter Levi 726 points
- Avi Markovitz 516 points
- James Lu 184 points
- Kc Nwaezuoke 137 points