WALLPAPER SWITCHER Variety
Version: 0.8.9 Web: https://peterlevi.com/variety/
Linux distros tend to be identifiable by their wallpapers, with each defaulting to a standard palette or colour scheme. Ubuntu, for instance, was associated with a brownish tinge for years, just as Fedora was associated with blue. All distros carry a collection of wallpapers by default, but as this is the first introduction of eye candy for desktop users, many prefer to deploy images of their own choosing.
You can delegate the task of deploying wallpapers to Variety, a tool that connects with various sources such a Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, Bing, Reddit, Google Earth, National Geographic’s Image of the Day and NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day to automatically download wallpapers and rotate through the selection at defined intervals. Depending on your mood or preference, you can enable or disable multiple sources from which Variety downloads its images. You no longer have to stare at the same image indefinitely until you overcome the lethargy to change it yourself. Even better, you can also empower Variety to place quotes on the desktop, motivational, funny or otherwise. The tool sources quotes from Goodreads, local text files, TheQuotationsPage.com and even Urban Dictionary. You can also define the font and size as well as the position of the quote, so as to not interfere with your workflow. To give you better control over the types of quotes displayed, Variety lets you use tags such as funny or motivational, and authors such as Gandhi, Shakespeare and more.
Many distros offer Variety in their repositories, and there’s even a PPA for Ubuntu users. If you’re running Fedora or another RPM-based distro, you can grab a package from https://rpmfind.net. Variety’s website provides distro-specific installation instructions as well as tweaks you must perform on different window managers before you can use it to start cycling through wallpapers.