3 Best Linux Wallpaper Changers to Spice Up Your Desktop Background

Do you find your Linux desktop background boring but don’t know where to find good-looking wallpapers to download? That’s where automatic wallpaper changers come in. They automatically find and download beautiful wallpapers for you and change your desktop background at regular intervals. Here are 3 best Linux wallpaper changer to spice up your desktop background.

#1. Variety Wallpaper Changer

Packed with features, Variety is an open-source automatic wallpaper changer for Linux. It changes the desktop wallpaper regularly, using local or automatically downloaded images. Variety can fetch wallpapers from Flickr, Wallbase.cc, Wallpapers.net, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, Desktoppr.co, media RSS feeds from Picasa and deviantART.

Variety sits conveniently as an indicator in the panel and can be easily paused and resumed. The mouse wheel can be used to scroll wallpapers back and forth.

Features:

• Safe mode prevents NSFW images from being downloaded to your computer.
• Display wallpapers from local folder or various online sources.
• Changes wallpaper at a user-definable interval.
• Automatically copy favorite wallpaper to a local folder.
• Randomly apply various effects to the displayed wallpaper
• The ability to show random wise quotes and a digital clock on the desktop
• Panel indicator
• and many more

On Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Ubuntu-based distros, you can install variety using the official PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install variety variety-slideshow

Debian user can install it from the default software repository.

sudo apt install variety

Arch Linux, Manjaro users can install from repository.

sudo pacman -S variety

Fedora

sudo dnf install variety

OpenSUSE

sudo zypper in variety

#2 Bing Wallpapers for Linux

Bing Wallpapers for Linux downloads and sets the stunning high-resolution Bing Image of the Day as your Wallpaper.

It changes your wallpaper automatically on a daily basis and save it at ~/Pictures/Bing/ folder . It’s not as feature-rich as Variety and you may not like the fact that a Bing watermark might be displayed on the bottom-right corner of your wallpaper.

On Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and other Ubuntu-based distro, you can easily install Bing Wallpapers for Linux using the following PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:whizzzkid/bingwallpaper

sudo apt update

sudo apt install bingwallpaper

Once installed, run bingwallpaper command to fetch Bing Image of the Day.

bingwallpaper

On next boot, it will automatically start.  Users of other Linux distributions can visit its page of Github to see how to set it up.

#3 Wallch Linux Wallpaper Changer

Wallch is a free open-source wallpaper changer that can display random image and Wikipedia’s picture of the day on your desktop. It also features a live earth wallpaper that change the desktop background very 30 minutes to a flat map that shows the sunlight and the clouds.

Wallch is available from Ubuntu repository. Ubuntu-based Linux distro users can install it using the command below.

sudo apt install wallch

Arch Linux, Manjaro, Apricity OS users can install wallch from AUR using the yaourt package manager.

yaourt wallch

So which one do you like most? And did you come across any Linux wallpaper changer that you’d like to share with Linux fans in the comments below?  As always, if you found this post useful, then subscribe to our free newsletter. You can also follow us on Twitter or like our Facebook page.