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[http://planetearthworm.com/projects/wp_tray/ wp_tray] is a wallpaper utility that sits on the GNOME panel. It gives you a random wallpaper from a chosen directory at logon, on a timer, and allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu.

Download missing packages (These were the only missing packages for me)

sudo apt-get install libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev

Download wp_tray-0.5.0
tar xvfz wp_tray-0.5.0.tar.gz
cd wp_tray-0.5.0

Before you start anything, you might want to enable capital suffixes of the images (otherwise JPEG JPG etc won't work)

edit src/wallpapers.cc and add the suffixes you want

gedit src/wallpaper.cc
search for "jpg" (ctrl-f)
add the capital lettered suffixes

configure and compile it

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-boostfilesystem=/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem.so --with-boostregex=/usr/lib/libboost_regex.so
make

install it

sudo make install

or to install it via a deb file (CheckInstall)

sudo make checkinstall

Now you need to change the name from wp_tray-0.5.0 to avoid the underscore

add the applet

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