Yor-Slideshow. TUI for Linux Gnome and KDE.

Make and Set Wallpaper Slideshows in 1 action. The practicality for this TUI is the easibility of having an xml file that you don't need to manually edit, adjusting date and time, adding/removing pictures whenever you update your collection, editting the order of the pictures which gnome extensions especially don't do, they typically transition the wallpapers in random order. This script does it all automatically for you. + It's only 3.4kB.

Preview

For the purpose of this demonstration the slideshow duration is set to 5 seconds.

2025-01-10.03-44-44.mp4

Usage

To download & run:

git clone https://github.com/soulhotel/yor-slideshow.git
cd yor-slideshow
chmod +x yor-slideshow.sh      # to make it executable
./yor-slideshow.sh             # to run yor-slideshow

To use it like any other application:

1. Included is a .desktop file.
2. First, directory for the .desktop file is set to /home/j/ which is Me.. so lets set it to You.
3. Then move it to your application folder
4. Then open your APPs and Enjoy.
5. If on KDE, make the desktop file open in konsole instead of gnome terminal.

sed -i "s|/home/j/|/home/$USER/|" slideshow.sh  # set the User to You
mv slideshow.sh ~/.local/share/applications/    # move it to app folder

# for kde only
sed -i "s|gnome-terminal --|konsole -e |" ~/.local/share/applications/slideshow.sh

Modification

• You can modify yor-slideshow.sh by opening it in a text editor
  • line 4 ~ The slideshow is created based on folders found in image_base_folder, the default is /Pictures.
  • line 5 ~ Is the duration for each slide, by default each slide is a 30 second duration_seconds transition.
• When picking a folder a new slideshow_foldername.xml will be created in the image_base_folder location.
• ^ This means that, yes, you can create xml files for each/all folders, without having to manually rename them.
• If the slideshow.xml already exist, it will erase/update/rewrite it.