I've found several software applications that create slideshows, but I've yet to see one that support changing the image size (i.e. fit, stretch, fill width, fill height). Is there any software that supports this?
Ubuntu – Wallpaper slideshow software that supports changing image size
slideshowwallpaper
Best Answer
Introduction
Here's the thing: if you run in terminal
dconf watch /
and at the same time flip through options in Ubuntu settings for the wallpaper size ( Tile, Scale, Zoom, etc.) you will see this:What does it all mean ? This means that if you have a software that can flip through wallpaper, it also should be able to flip through those options, right ?
Well, I've written a wallpaper slide-show script some time before. In the past it had required options. For your specific question, I modified the script to also deal with size, as well as made only one option required
-d
which corresponds to the directory where slideshow images are supposed to live.Basic Usage
The usage is simple: give it directory with images, give it size , and run. It is as simple as doing this:
You can always use
-h
option to show help information for extra options too and in case you forget the usage:Script Source
The script source is available both here and on GitHub. If you have
git
, feel free to rungit clone https://github.com/SergKolo/sergrep.git
or download the repository files from the link above. If you're copying from here, make sure you save the file asxml_wallpaper_maker.py
and make it executable withchmod +x xml_wallpaper_maker.py
.