[SOLVED] XFCE Slideshow Wallpaper - Fade animations

Dear forums
As the title says, I wonder if there is any way to get nice fade animations like in Gnome or KDE for XFCE. I remember there being an inbuilt option in XFCE making it possible to select some images which would be cycled through, but other than using e.g. Variety on Ubuntu, there is no animation when the wallpaper changes. Does this depend on some library? Could it be that Ubuntu has a configuration which makes it possible to use those animations automatically in XFCE too?
I'm seriously considering leaving Ubuntu for good and use Arch Linux again, but since I'm using my Computer every day, I'd like my Desktop to look pretty.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by alexftw (2014-03-16 04:43:48)

twelveeighty wrote:http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/cre … ounds-xfce
This only explains how to get a slideshow with xfdesktop, I know that already. My question was how to get fancy animations when the wallpaper changes.
progandy wrote:You could try shantz-xwinwrap-bzr to force a window in the background.
What a coincidence, I just figured that out myself!
In case anyone will need this:
xwinwrap -b -fs -sp -fs -nf -ov -- feh --bg-fill /path/to/your/wallpapers/
xwinwrap will say that feh died but the exit code is 0 so there's nothing to worry about (does feh run as a daemon in the background?). Fade duration is specified by the compositor itself (now the only thing that'd make it perfect would be making compton use a longer fade duration on feh only), for automatic switching I'll use this for now, file "wallpaper_randomizer":
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
xwinwrap -b -fs -sp -fs -nf -ov -- feh --randomize --bg-fill /home/alexander/Bilder/Wallpapers/
sleep 600
done
chmod +x wallpaper_randomizer
I'm using the XFCE settings to start it automatically, but adding it to .xinitrc would probably work too (useful if not using XFCE):
compton -b &
/path/to/wallpaper_randomizer &
exec start_xfce4
That makes me really happy somehow. Thank you, progandy, that would've really helped me if I've given up searching for a solution already.

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