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Tag Archives: quirkywallpaper
This neat wallpaper changes with the time of day
Wallpapers don’t have to be static and boring. We’ve written about Android-style live wallpapers, weather wallpaper and real-time earth wallpapers before but here’s something a little less flashy: a gorgeous wallpaper that changes with the time of day
Real-time earth wallpaper ‘xplanetFX’ gets refreshed look
Neat real-time earth wallpaper renderer ‘xplanetFX’ has received a refreshed GUI in its most recent update. Here we take a quick look at what’s been revamped and refresh your mind on how to install the app itself.
HQ real-time Earth wallpaper for Ubuntu: XPlanetFX
Forever a fan of quirky wallpapers that break with the tradtional tedium that is static desktop wallpapers, I was stoked to come across XplanetFX – a real-time wallpaper that puts the Earth, Moon and Sun on your desktop in stunning high-quality.
Eye-candy fans won’t want to miss this.
Generative wallpapers for Ubuntu: Game of Life
We love the idea of Generative Wallpapers – self-updating ever-changing backgrounds – here on OMG! Ubuntu! and, seemingly, so do you!
Reader Aziz got in touch with a fantastic regenerative wallpaper of his own, inspired by an earlier article of ours on intelligent boot-splashes. Read on for more.
DreamScene for Ubuntu? Ta very much.
Ever wanted to set video as your desktop wallpaper a la the quickly-ditched Windows DreamScene? With ‘Video Wallpaper‘ it’s easy. It actually moves. Honest. By using Video Wallpaper you will be forfeiting the ability to use the ‘desktop’ as normal – no icons, files etc will show. Any drop shadows present on panels will also disappear. If [...]
Quirky Wallpaper: Real-time sunlight wallpaper
A few days back Benjamin posted an article on setting up a slick real-time Earth view wallpaper. In response to that Carles Sentis has sent us news of an awesome pet project of his which does all that that script did – and then some. It’s called ‘Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper’. Features Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper (RSW from [...]
Quirky Wallpaper: Live Earth wallpaper
This could be you! I love space, and, more specifically I love space wallpapers as my wallpaper. During exam time (like now) I usually set some motivational wallpaper like “Get the hell off Facebook and do some work” or “Mind like water” from the Minimal Wallpaper collection. But when I’m not in study mode I [...]
Quirky Wallpaper: Set your mouse movement as desktop wallpaper
Turn your mouse movements into a zany desktop wallpaper using IOGraph. Developed by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov & his colleague Andrey Shipilov, the JAVA application is designed to be run in the background as you go about your everyday ‘computing’. Druing this time IOGraph builds up a picture based on the movement of your mouse. Once you’ve had it running [...]
Typography wallpaper creates a wallpaper using your installed fonts
Typography wallpaper is an awesome little script created by Dave Child that generates a wallpaper using your installed fonts – using a different font and character each time it is run. Download First download the script from here (right click, save as) Now ensure you have PHP and ImageMagick installed sudo apt-get install imagemagick php5 [...]
Quirky Wallpaper: Top 10 Recent Cinema Releases As Your Wallpaper
IMPloader is a small script that sets your wallpaper as a collage of posters from the current top 10 cinema releases. One caveat is that the script pulls its ‘data’ from a US-based soruce, meaning if you live anywhere else you’ll likely find poster for movies that aren’y yet released in your country. With that [...]
Easily Create Animated Wallpapers In Ubuntu
Using XML animated background creator to create auto-changing wallpapers is a snip. It allows you to specify the folder and images you wish to use, the duration of each wallpaper and auto-generates the required .xml file for GNOME to read from. The wallpapers are shown in alphabetical order, so bear this in mind if you [...]
Set Bing.Com’s Background Of The Day As Your Wallpaper [Updated]
Bing.com (Microsoft’s Search engine) has various little features that users like. One of those being the daily ‘background of the day’. With a simple script by OMG! Ubuntu! reader “YoungJesus” you can automatically sync your desktop wallpaper with that of Bing.com’s daily background. Install Download the script @ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1115768/bing_wallpaper.sh Once downloaded move it somewhere safe [...]
Quirky Wallpaper Series: KDE Edition
Want a rotational, zoom-able globe on your desktop? How about a flying animated star field?! Welcome to QUirky WaLlpapers KDE Edition. Star-Field “plasma-wallpaper-starfield” is a desktop background for KDEthat places an animated starfield over your wallpaper. Although it can be quite CPU intensive and buggy, it’s worth trying out just for the “huh!” factor. Coupling [...]
Quirky Wallpaper Series: Use Your LastFm Data As A Cool Wallpaper!
WallpaperFM converts your Last.Fm data into a really cool – and highly customizable – wallpaper. Way too cool not to make part of my Quirky Wallpaper Series and share with the rest of you Ubuntu users! If you want to try this out, open a terminal and paste each line. cd mkdir wallpaperfm cd wallpaperfm [...]