Sunday, March 15, 2009

Customize your Ubuntu wallpaper with webilder

Today I am going to show you how to customize your Ubuntu wallpaper. Well, you might think that it's not that hard, you take a picture and set it as your background. Yes, I know, this is the fast way, but where to find that good picture to set it as a wallpaper?
Weblider is an application just for you, it searches Flickr and Webshots to download some great wallpapers from around the internet. Trust me, it's great!

Before installing webilder you will need to add its repository to your software sources. 

1) Go to Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
2) Go to the bottom of the file and paste the following repositories:
deb http://debian.websterwood.com/ intrepid main
deb-src http://debian.websterwood.com/ intrepid main
3) Enter Terminal, update the repositories and install welilder:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install webilder webilder-gnome 

After installing webilder I suggest you adding Webilder to your panel. To do so, right-click on the upper-panel and press "Add to panel". Search for Weblider Desktop Applet and add it.

In Webilder, go to Tools > Download Photos and let it get some photos for you. After this, you can set them as your wallpaper. The only problem you might encounter is the resolution, but most of the photos have a good one.

That's all! Enjoy your new wallpaper...

7 comments:

  1. what is the difference between sudo and gksudo?
    when should I use one over the other?
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  2. gksudo is used to run graphical apps from terminal, such as nautilus. if it's not a graphical app, use sudo.

    PS: they do the same thing, give you root privileges
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  3. This is good application, I use opensuse and I guess this application should also be available for opensuse.
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  4. i want to say some thing "good job"
    all in one search engine

    http://trypu.com
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  5. Thanks for this, it's a really cool app.
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  6. Wow, I could do this in Windows by right-clicking!

    How novel!
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  7. @anonymous(the one above me). He is not simply changing the background. This is an application for linux which automaticaly downloads images from flickr according to image tags that you can specify. I have 5 computers: 3 running xp, 1 running vista, and 1 running ubuntu this is not an out of the box ability that any of them have. You obviously don't understand what he's talking about.
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