This simple app automatically sets your Ubuntu desktop wallpaper to an image matching the current weather conditions in your location.
We know a lot of you love having a stylish Ubuntu desktop to show off. And as Linux makes it so easy to create a stunning workspace with a minimal effort, that’s understandable! Today, we’re highlighting — re-highlighting for those of you with […]
You're either into wallpaper, or your not. And if you are then chances are you're constantly changing it. Wallch is a small application that helps automate the wallpaper changing process, and brings a few nifty extras with it too...
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
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.
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.
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.
Want some Android-style live wallpaper on your Ubuntu desktop? Now you can.
Ever wanted to set video as your desktop wallpaper a la the quickly-ditched Windows DreamScene? With 'Video Wallpaper' it's easy.
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 […]
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 […]
Turn your mouse movements into a zany desktop wallpaper with IOGraph. Developed by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov & his colleague Andrey Shipilov, the Java application is set to run in the background while you go about your everyday ‘computing’. During this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]