I have a problem with a wallpaper slideshow that I created (I am using GNOME 3 classic interface on Oneiric Ocelot).
I followed the new "standard procedure" to create a new slideshow background on Ubuntu 11.10, as I read in some other topics here (i.e. I created a new .xml file for background slideshows, containing the locations of the pictures I wanted to show in it; then, I edited the background-1.xml file in usr/share/gnome-background-settings adding my new background file location to make it appear in the "Appearance" menu, from which I selected it).
The problem that I have now is that my slideshow is behaving in a weird way: the pictures change in a totally random manner (I set 600 in the time field, which stands for 10 minutes, but instead they change every 2-3 minutes); even more, the picture rotating are actually only a few from the original ones that I set in the .xml file, and they rotate in a random order!
I thought that maybe the problem was in some syntax error I made in the .xml file, but I deleted and created a new .xml file (with a new file location, too) for 3-4 times and I still get the same errors! Maybe the first version of the file is somehow still memorized somewhere, and it is causing the newer versions of the file to have all of these problems?
Thanks to anyone who manages to help me with this! :)
(Edit) Here is the XML file I used, I changed the location to a random /Location/, anyway the location in the original file is correct, because it has no problem locating the pictures:
<background>
<starttime>
<year>2009</year>
<month>08</month>
<day>04</day>
<hour>00</hour>
<minute>00</minute>
<second>00</second>
</starttime>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/1.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/1.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/2.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/2.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/2.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/3.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/3.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/3.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/4.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/4.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/4.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/5.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/5.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/5.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/6.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/6.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/6.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/7.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/7.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/7.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/8.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/8.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/8.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/9.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/9.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/9.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/10.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/10.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/10.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/11.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/11.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/11.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/12.jpg</to>
</transition>
<static>
<duration>600.0</duration>
<file>/Location/12.jpg</file>
</static>
<transition>
<duration>5.0</duration>
<from>/Location/12.jpg</from>
<to>/Location/1.jpg</to>
</transition>
</background>
wallch
instead? askubuntu.com/questions/134/…