For no other reason than “it looks nice” (and showing snooty Windows users that we can do anything they can do – and in hundreds of different ways ), I decided to set up my desktop wallpaper to change at different times throughout the day.

There are programs in the repositories which will do this (notably CREBS and wallch), but I like to keep things reasonably light by not having too many other processes running in the background.

The standard desktop background applet comes with this functionality built in, and creating your own slideshow from scratch is a fun and geeky project. Read more…