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.
Variety is available in the distro repositories of:
Variety backports to older Ubuntu releases are available at https://code.launchpad.net/~peterlevi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
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:
- GObject introspection / GIRepository bindings for:
- GDK Pixbuf (Debian/Ubuntu: gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0)
- gexiv2 (Debian/Ubuntu: gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10)
- GLib, GObject, GModule, Gio (Debian/Ubuntu: gir1.2-glib-2.0)
- GTK+ 3 (Debian/Ubuntu: gir1.2-gtk-3.0)
- libnotify (Debian/Ubuntu: gir1.2-gtk-3.0)
- Pango (Debian/Ubuntu: gir1.2-pango-1.0)
- Python 3 libraries:
- BeautifulSoup4
- lxml
- Cairo bindings for Python 3 (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu python3-cairo)
- Cairo PyGObject integration (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu python3-gi-cairo)
- ConfigObj
- Pillow
- pkg_resources (from setuptools)
- Requests
- Optional: httplib2 (for more quotes sources)
- Optional: imagemagick (for wallpaper filters)
- Optional: feh and/or nitrogen: used by default for wallpaper changing on i3, openbox, and dwm
See debian/control for an equivalent list of runtime dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu.
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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, usepython3 setup.py install --prefix $HOME/.local. -
Run
varietyfrom the command line or its desktop menu entry!