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Variety Slideshow is not in the Ubuntu Universe repository and is only available from the PPA: Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:variety/stable

On older releases, or if you want to always be on the latest version, use the official PPA by running these commands in a terminal:

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Sudo apt update & sudo apt install variety Variety can be installed on Ubuntu 16.04 or later from the Universe repository:

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This extension is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary OS, and other Ubuntu derivatives Also, thanks to Microsoft for this great API and wallpaper collection.

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I'd like to give a special shout out to those who have contributed code and translations as well as everyone who has reported bugs or provided feedback and suggestions for improvements.

Images are protected by copyright, and are licensed only for use as wallpapers. This extension is unofficial and not affiliated with Bing or Microsoft in any way. Screenshots Image galleryĭo you like this extension and want to show that you appreciate the work that goes into adding new features and keeping it maintained? Please consider buying me a coffee on GitHub Sponsors or on Flattr. Please include logs from your journal when submitting bug notices (make sure nothing sensitive is included in the text!). Or install directly to your GNOME extensions directory (useful if you want to hack on dconf-editor /org/gnome/shell/extensions/bingwallpaper/ GNOME 3.36+ or 40+ (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or later, older versions of the extension work with 3.18+, but are no longer supported).

Bing may detect your location incorrectly (and force a locale as above) - if you see this, please let me know what itself does Requirements.

In China, users are limited to 'Chinese – China', 'English - International' markets (this is the way Bing handles the Chinese market/locale, not an extension 'bug' - sorry!).

add user features requests - lots have already been implemented Known Issues.

add more languages (#14) - please help if you can.

A selection of different theme-aware indicator (tray) icons to choose (or hide it completely) TODO.

Image preview in menus & ability to manually set wallpapers individually or copy image to clipboard.

Language support: English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Chinese (zh_CN), French (fr_FR), Portuguese (pt, pt_BR), Russian (ru_RU), Spanish (es), Korean (ko, ko_KR, ko_KP), Indonesian (id), Catalan (ca), Norwegian Bokmål (nb) & Nynorsk (ni), Swedish (sv), Arabic (ar), Hungarian (hu) and Japanese (ja) - a HUGE thanks to the translators.

Optionally delete old images after a week, or you can keep (and curate) them forever.

Image gallery to view, select and curate stored images.

Shuffle/randomise wallpapers at adjustable intervals (including from your stored Bing images).

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Only attempts to download wallpapers when they have been updated - doesn't poll continuously.

Automatically sets the Bing Image of the Day as both lock screen and desktop wallpapers.

Lockscreen blur code is based on Pratap-Kumar's extension.Īlso, check out my related Google Earth View wallpaper extension and the partially-derived Bing Desktop Wallpaper for Cinnamon by Starcross. This extension is based extensively on the NASA APOD extension by ElinventionĪnd inspired by Bing Desktop WallpaperChanger by Utkarsh Gupta. The intention of this extension is to just do what it needs to do and stay out of your way, with a few optional features to improve quality-of-life. A lightweight extension that brings some color to your desktop by syncing your desktop and lockscreen wallpapers with today's Microsoft Bing image of the day (the image you see when you visit ).