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Variety Wallpaper Changer

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Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use. It can automatically download wallpapers from various online sources, allows rotating them on a regular interval or on demand, and provides easy to use ways to separate the great images...

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Linux  Ubuntu 12.04 or newer, or derivatives
Image filters
Easy manual downloading
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Great Flickr support
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  1.  Wallpaper Cycling
  2.  Image Filters

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Variety Wallpaper Changer information

  • Developed by

    US flagPeter Levi

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4 (11 ratings)

  • Alternatives

    44 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  1,378 Stars
  •  155 Forks
  •  251 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 7, 2025 
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Our users have written 12 comments and reviews about Variety Wallpaper Changer, and it has gotten 136 likes

Variety Wallpaper Changer was added to AlternativeTo by peterlevi on Sep 8, 2012 and this page was last updated Dec 22, 2024. Variety Wallpaper Changer is sometimes referred to as Variety.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Peter Mello
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Jul 24, 2020
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Simple Python implementation with low resource overhead and a lot of elegant aesthetic touches and configurability.

AdinanCenci
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Jan 28, 2023
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It has so many sources, and I can configure it to save my favorites inside the Dropbox folder and have them synced between devices.

AwareDroid
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Jul 9, 2019
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There is many options to choose as a source for your wallpapers. like Flickr etc.

mykothy
Mar 13, 2017
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Works as promised. Very slim application.

erudyk
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Oct 25, 2015
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Excellent. Love it! Simple, intuitive and really great wallpaper sources.

apocalypson
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Mar 27, 2015
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This program has an unique approach. It allows you to apply various filters to change wallpapers beyond recognition and also lets you to download wallpapers from various sources and display additional info like time and date or quotes on the desktop. Very well done. works on opensuse with gnome

chugeiro
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Oct 21, 2014
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Still some rough edges to iron out, but it is really great and the best tool for the purpose I've so far found on Ubuntu.

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What is Variety Wallpaper Changer?

Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use. It can automatically download wallpapers from various online sources, allows rotating them on a regular interval or on demand, and provides easy to use ways to separate the great images from the junk.

Notable other features include: showing a nice digital clock on the desktop, applying of various nice image filters to the wallpapers, great visualization of the history and the image folders which allows the user to very easily change the wallpaper manually, on-demand publishing of images to Facebook.

Variety runs on Ubuntu 12.04 and newer, and on most Ubuntu variants and derivatives - Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, and others.

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