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Bing Picture of the Day as Desktop Wallpaper?

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Can anyone help me out with how to make Bing Picture to my Desktop Wallpaper?

So it works by downloading the highest quality of todays picture.

Then storing it ex in the Picture folder of your account.

After that automatically changing the picture itself.

It should continue the same everyday without hassle in the background.

Probably something I have to add in the Startup Applications.

Any differences between Ubuntu versions?

-Do I have to write a script?
This would be appreciated by many others too!
Thank You in Advance :)

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answered 1 Year ago peafowkes · Accepted Answer

Probably the easiest thing to do would be to install variety. It is a wall-paper manager that really does an excellent job to change your wallpaper at the frequency you want.

Here are some of its settings:

the frequency of the download

the frequency of changing the image (once a day, at every reboot, every minute,...)

where you want to download your images from

where you want to store them on your computer

quotes (either automatically or from a source)

a nice clock.

There is also a setting to run it at login. If you enable that and then add your bing image of the day url (http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=picture+of+the+day&qpvt=picture+of+the+day&FORM=IGRE?), you are all set.

It can be found in the software center and it has a 5* rating!

Here are some screenshots:

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