Variety changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
Variety is available natively in Debian 9+ and Ubuntu 16.04+: sudo apt install variety. Backports to stable Ubuntu releases are available 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
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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randomisation of photos seems odd
Posted on 2021-04-19 -
Changing quotes on still background
Posted on 2020-12-15 -
Close variety after it changes the wallpaper
Posted on 2020-09-22 -
Quotes displaying Giberish
Posted on 2020-07-27 -
Change backgroud from terminal
Posted on 2020-06-02
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 0.8.5-1 uploaded on 2020-12-10 -
variety source package in Hirsute
Version 0.8.5-1 uploaded on 2020-12-10 -
variety source package in Groovy
Version 0.8.4-1 uploaded on 2020-07-20 -
variety source package in Focal
Version 0.8.3-1 uploaded on 2020-02-27
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1917657: Variety won't run
Reported on 2021-03-03 -
Bug #1913454: timing for changing background isn't honored
Reported on 2021-01-27 -
Bug #1909481: permissions wrong?
Reported on 2020-12-28 -
Bug #1903859: quotes used to show on ubuntu 18.04 on my lenovo Thinkpad 3698. After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04, The quotes shows up in boxes with 2 number, letters or cobination of both instead of the ascii characters. it seems to be binary numbers lor hexadecimal.
Reported on 2020-11-11 -
Bug #1890614: I have noticed issues with xorg on ubuntu and raspbian. I get call path errors and cinnamon not found errors on ubuntu. and on raspian when I open Kodi and then close it after a while many many images change on the screen really fast.
Reported on 2020-08-06
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
- James Lu 1098 points
- Peter Levi 599 points
- Dave Rogers 338 points
- Muhamed Vrajolli 253 points
- dduran1210 93 points