NOIA MULTIPLE-WALLPAPERS 0.85 for Kde2/Kde3
Noia Multiple-Wallpapers is a set of images made with Gimp (the original
image is Noia Wallpaper designed by Carlitus... Thanks!!!! ). I just modified
the original image to create a sequence of pictures, from the rising of
sun to twilight, then the night comes... the moon appears, afterwards the
background turns to black until a new sunset... So days pass in your Kde
desktop.
The target is to see a "PSEUDO-ANIMATION" on desktop background, across
a sequence of the same picture with different colors and daylights, changing
the position of sun and showing the moon after the sunset, and so on.
Moreover, Noia Multi 0.8 contains a brief program that changes the appearence
of the background according to time of the day, in a real-time simulation of
the light on your Kde dektop.
(Thank to Tom Deblauwe who has send me this nice program).
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1) Switching wallpapers one-by-one through Control Panel
TO SET UP the PSEUDO-ANIMATION of Noia Multi Wallpapers, first, copy the
"wallpapers" directory in your /$HOME/.kde/share/
DO NOT RENAME THE PICTURES, because KDE will display them in alphabetical
oder.
Go in the Kde Control Center; now select Look&Feel ---> Background.
In the Wallpaper section select "Multiple Wallpapers" and click on "Setup
Multiple".
Click on "Add" button and browse in your directory /$HOME/.kde/share/wallpapers
where the pictures live. Now choose Mode "In Order" and set the Interval
as you like... (1 Minute is a good interval to make a very cool effect).
2) The wallpaper can change according to your clock!
If you like, Noia Multi 0.8 contains a script to change the appearence of your desktop
in accordance with the hour of the day.
Open a console terminal, copy the directory noia in /usr/share/wallpapers
Enter in the directory changewp
Change yourself to root:
su
Copy the files:
cp changewp* /usr/bin
Make sure the permissions are right:
chmod a+x /usr/bin/changewp*
Copy the file changewp.conf to /etc/changewp.conf like this:
cp changewp.conf /etc
chmod a+r /etc/changewp.conf
You can edit the configuration file and adapt it to your wishes. Every line should contain a time indication ('hh:mm') followed by a tab or a space and then the absolute location of the wallpaper to be shown.
20:00 /home/sergio/themes/Noia_multiple_wallpapers_05/wallpapers/noia94b.jpg
NOTE: You should always leave a line with '00:00' in your config.
NOTE 2: If you specify a file in the homedir of your regular user called '.changewp.conf' then this configuration file will be used instead of the general one in /etc/changewp.conf
To start the switching of wallpapers you can:
1) open a console terminal and do the command:
changewp start
or...
2) copy the file Startchangewp in your $HOME/.kde/Autostart/
or open your home directory in konqueror and in the 'Go' menu you click on 'Autostart'. This opens a new window at '$HOME/.kde/Autostart'. Right click and select:
create new -> Link to application...
A dialog pops up and you must type in a name for the link e.g. 'changepaper'. Now click on the 'Execute' tab and under 'Command:' you must fill in the following:
changewp start
Close the window and relogin in KDE. Now it should be loaded! You should see in the process table a process 'changewpd'.
To stop the switching of the wallpapers execute this command as the user you logged in:
changewp stop
Enjoy!
Please send me comments and suggestions, thanks!
CRISTOPULOS
mar dic 3 04:07:45 CET 2002