HowTo: Automatically Change your Fedora Desktop Wallpaper

How to selectively change your desktop wallpaper automatically?
How to automatically change your desktop wallpaper every N minutes?
How to add wallpaper management program into your linux desktop?
How to add wallpaper panel into your GNOME panel?

Here's a quick post of how to have a wallpaper tray installed into your GNOME.

What is Wallpaper Tray
Wallpaper Tray is a GNOME applet used for changing your wallpaper. Wallpaper Tray is a utility for the Gnome Desktop Panel. You add the applet to your panel, and use it to manage and display your wallpaper collection.

Wallpaper Tray Program Operation
Wallpaper Tray program offers flexibility and convenience from wallpaper files handling and displaying. Users can customize the number of minutes on changing desktop wallpapers. Wallpaper files specific folders can be added anytime from wallpaper tray preferences and options. Randomly chosen wallpapers by wallpaper tray program can be displayed in a variety of ways.

Wallpapers can be displayed stretched, centered, scaled or as it is wallpaper display basis. Wallpaper selection can be done randomly, sorted by date, or alphabetically depending on user's choice of selection. What more you can ask for your desktop wallpaper management, wallpaper tray also supports changing of desktop wallpaper every time user logons.

Wallpaper Tray, as the name suggests, used to be live in the Notification Area. The Notification Area was never really meant for programs such as this, so the latest release uses the Gnome Panel.
The wallpaper tray applet lets you add directories, wallpapers are then randomly selected at login or at a given interval. You can also search your wallpaper collection, and delete wallpapers you don't like anymore.

Wallpaper Installation
Fedora supports rpm binary package for wallpaper tray. To install, simply

# yum -y install wp_tray

The above wallpaper tray installation downloads around 530K of binary and library dependencies for GNOME. After successful wallpaper tray installation, there is no need to restart your X or GNOME.

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Give wallpaper a shot, you might have fun with it!

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