DeskChanger

DeskChanger is a gnome-shell wallpaper slideshow extension with multiple profile support. The extension allows you to switch profiles on the fly without reloading the daemon.

Screenshots

Requirements

The requirements are for the most recent version of the plugin. Previous versions support older versions of gnome-shell.

gnome-shell 3.32 or higher
gjs 1.54 or higher

Install

First clone the repo and run the following install instructions.

git clone -b develop git@github.com:BigE/desk-changer.git
cd desk-changer
make all

Once the make process is complete, you can then run make install to install the extension to your local directory. If you want to install it to the system, just copy the desk-changer@eric.gach.gmail.com folder to your /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ folder.

# cp -r desk-changer@eric.gach.gmail.com/ /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

Then restart gnome-shell and enable the extension. Once it is enabled, you can use the extension to start the daemon with the built in toggle switch.

General Information

Daemon

The daemon is now part of the extension itself and has no command line interface. The only interface available to the daemon now is the DBus interface.

DBUS Interface

Name: org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.DeskChanger.Daemon

Path: /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/DeskChanger/Daemon

Methods

Load(String profile) Loads the specified profile and respective locations
Next() Switches to the next wallpaper, returns the uri
Prev() Switches to the previous wallpaper, returns the uri
Quit() Terminates the daemon process.
Start() Enables automatic rotation and makes the daemon available
Stop([Boolean quit]) Disables automatic rotation and makes the daemon unavaialble for use. If quit is true then the daemon process will be terminated.

Properties

History - Read only array of history
Preview - Read only URI of the next wallpaper
Queue - Read only array of the queue
Running - Read only boolean value if the daemon is stopped or started

Signals

Changed - Emitted when the wallpaper is changed, uri to wallpaper file
Preview - Emitted when a new preview is available, uri to preview file
Running - Emitted when the daemon is stopped and started

dconf-editor

To view the settings in dconf-editor, just use the GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR= environment variable to open dconf-editor with the extensions schema available to the editor.

$ GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desk-changer@eric.gach.gmail.com/schemas/ dconf-editor /org/gnome/shell/extensions/desk-changer

Then navigate to /org/gnome/shell/extensions/desk-changer and you will see all of the available settings for the extension and daemon.