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Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer designed for Linux operating system, it comes with great features and easy to use. There are many wallpaper manager applications available which offers many features but Variety has its own way to get things done. It can display wallpapers from local sources or lots of various online sources, allows user to change wallpaper on a regular interval, and provides easy ways to separate the great images from the junk.
Generally, from preferences you can set Variety program to auto-start, change wallpaper after interval, and change wallpaper when program starts. If you are interested in online wallpaper source then it allows you customize settings like: choose online source for wallpaper, download new wallpaper after interval, set limit to images folder, copy favorite wallpapers to specific directory and so.
Another great feature of this program is effects, under this tab you can set different filters to your current wallpaper such as: Grayscale, Heavyblur, Soft blur, Oil painting, Pencil Sketch, Pointilism, and Pixellate. It also displays wise/famous/funny quotes from different sources and further more you can display clock on the desktop. You can customize appearance of Quotes and Clock.
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From now Variety started its own online social network where you can participate and log in to Variety program to explore this program socially. You can also manually download wallpapers from various famous sites using this program. In preferences under 'color and size' tab you can change extended properties of your current wallpaper. Panel indicator of Variety gives you quick access to some of the main options of program.

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 18/17/13/and other Ubuntu Derivatives
To install Variety in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

That's it
Install Variety Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/and Ubuntu derivatives

Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is feature-full, 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.
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Install Variety Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 15/14/13/and Ubuntu derivatives

Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is feature-full, 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.
Install Variety Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 15/14/13/and Ubuntu derivatives

Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is feature-full, 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.



What's new in this version?
  • Better Remove source functionality
  • Add support for MATE 1.6 and Cinnamon 1.8
  • Better support for LightDM
  • Fix problems with the folder choosers
  • Many bug fixed

To install Variety in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
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Install Variety Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 14/13

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.
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Changes in this Variety 0.4.12:
  • Updated tips and changes txt
  • Bugfix: Save original wallpaper name when quotes are applied
  • Bugfix: a download was forcing the thumbs window to reshow when already hidden
  • Minor fix
  • Improvements related to image preparing; Minor bug-fixes
  • Trigger a download when too few images found; Livelier thumbs when showing folders, not only history and downloads (new downloads are auto-shown)
  • Merged in variety-instant-preferences
  • Fix: removed class Window was still referred at one place
  • Replaced some unnecessary timers with calls to GObject.timeout_add
  • Reordered prefs tabs. Command-line way to set options
  • Added UI preferences tab
  • Added Rating option to main menu - optional (off by default)
  • Added funtionality to set image ratings
  • Filtering by rating added; Preparations for adding simple functionality to rate images
  • Ensure wallpaper is changed even if the current background is a solid color in Gnome/Unity

To install Variety in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Download source for other distro