This article is over six months old. Which means the information below may be out of date. Please keep this in mind whilst reading this article.
For those that don’t know, a live wallpaper is an animated background for your desktop. These kind of wallpapers have been a regular feature on Android for quite a while now, but as of now, you can use live wallpapers in Ubuntu also!
The tool we use to accomplish this is Slidewall. Slidewall is a tool that has a couple of tricks up its sleeve – not only does it support live wallpapers but you can also set it to cycle through a selection of images automatically.
By default Slidewall comes with a selection of ‘wallpaper clocks’ and also a live wallpaper featuring an image of the earth that rotates in real time. Pretty impressive hey!
Here are a few screenshots to wet your appetite:
If the default wallpapers don’t do it for you, you can download more from here. To install Slidewall in Ubuntu, simply run the following commands in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fioan89/slidewall sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install slidewall
If you are using a different distribution than Ubuntu, you can find instructions on how to install Slidewall in other distro’s on the Slidewall launchpad page.
