Variety

Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.

Where supported, Variety sits as a tray icon to allow easy pausing and resuming. Otherwise, its desktop entry menu provides a similar set of options.

Variety also includes a range of image effects, such as oil painting and blur, as well as options to layer quotes and a clock onto the background.

Installation

As a system package

Variety is available in the distro repositories of:

Ubuntu PPA

Variety backports to older Ubuntu releases are available at https://launchpad.net/~variety/+archive/ubuntu/stable (a NEW location as of April 2019).

Install from source

To install Variety from source, you will need Git, Python 3.5+ and distutils-extra. To actually run Variety, you will also need the following:

Runtime Requirements

GTK+ 3
gexiv2
libnotify
Python 3 libraries:
- BeautifulSoup4
- lxml
- Pycairo
- PyGObject, built with Cairo integration
- ConfigObj
- Pillow
- pkg_resources (from setuptools)
- Requests
- Optional: httplib2 (for more quotes sources)
Optional: imagemagick (for wallpaper filters)
Optional: feh or nitrogen: used by default to set wallpapers on i3, openbox, and other WMs
Optional: libayatana-indicator (for AppIndicator support)
Optional: for tray icon support on GNOME, the GNOME AppIndicator extension

See debian/control for an equivalent list of runtime dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu.

Install steps

Clone the git repository: git clone https://github.com/varietywalls/variety.git && cd variety
Run python3 setup.py install. By default, this will install Variety into /usr/local; for a local installation, use python3 setup.py install --prefix $HOME/.local.
Run variety from the command line or its desktop menu entry!