Tweak your OS part 1: random wallpapers

Related tags: desktop tweaking, Linux, wallpapers, Windows Written by: Otaku

Do you also think those default wallpapers of your OS are boring? People who know me at school think that I am a wallpaper maniac. Maybe I am! Because they see different wallpapers of anime babes on my desktop almost every time. Sometimes I cannot choose between wallpapers, so the perfect solution is to randomize wallpapers.

I am a really eye candy liking person when it comes to operating systems. I like tweaking operating systems and personal computers in general, I am one of those “pasokon” otaku. Sometimes I even build my own desktop computers. Today I am gonna talk about customizing your desktop background by creating a sideshow of random wallpapers.

However, in this tutorial I am only explaining things for Windows and Linux. I am not going to explain things for Mac OS and other BSD/Unix systems, because Apple products are just for faggots in general. I’ve seen so many people with AFS (Apple Fanboy Syndrome) and that can be very scary sometimes. People have the freedom to choose what operating system they want to use, whether it is closed or open source. But I heard so many times things like “Mac Os is awesome, because it is from Apple” or “The Ipad is awesome, because Steve Jobs says it too” Apple fan boys are the biggest fools in the world in my opinion! I will never buy a Mac system, because the hardware simply doesn’t cost that much and the OS is actually just an Unix rip-off. If you want a super fast system without viruses: go for a free open source Linux distribution like Ubuntu or just stick with Windows if you are not a technical person.

Sorry, this post was supposed to be a tutorial and not an OS war, but you may understand my feelings if you dislike Mac Os and AFS just like I do. OK, enough about this bullshit! Let’s start the tutorial with Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu uses Gnome as desktop environment, so I am not sure if this also works for KDE or other environments. I made a short video to show my desktop to you, using an application called Crebs in Ubuntu with Compiz enabled.

Alternatively you can also set different wallpapers on each workspace using Compiz. However, there are some minor issues using this method, because you have to disable all the desktop items. I usually drop a lot of files on my desktop, so this is not a perfect solution for me and accessing the desktop files with nautilus or terminal every time can be very annoying. Youtube user “gotbleu” made a very interesting video about this feature.

Pretty cool is Linux, isn’t it? But ninety-nine percent who visits this website, probably uses Windows. What about random wallpapers in Windows? Windows 7 supports wallpaper sideshows natively, but you might need third party software if you are using older versions of Windows. Do you know any good Windows application that doesn’t kill your CPU? Then please share this information with us!

So what shall we discuss next time? How to use video as wallpaper or maybe about screen-savers? Themes and splash screens? …maybe widgets and gadgets? Well, just let me know what you want to learn and I will write a tutorial about it.

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