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Live wallpaper works very erratically

Post by Cyan »

Hi,

Live Wallpaper DOES work for me 1/4 or 1/2 of the time on Mint 17, but it often doesn't display correctly. The most common form of this is that it'll show my non-live wallpaper image, but on the far left of the screen, I can see the tiles/images shifting normally, almost as if it's 20% on my screen, with another 80% outputting to an imaginary monitor to the left of the one I'm using. Anyone else have a similar problem, or otherwise know how to get it working more consistently? I'm not sure if I see a common situation that causes this to happen, but I do know it tends to work either perfectly or very, very badly as described. Thanks in advance! :)
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Re: Live wallpaper works very erratically

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Hi Cyan,

I'm not sure I understand the problem and what exactly do you mean by live wallpaper?
Do you mean the wallpaper that changes in the Cinnamon Desktop?

I use Variety wallpaper changer here and it works quite well with Cinnamon you can install it by following these instructions.
http://peterlevi.com/variety/how-to-install/
Good Luck :)
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Re: Live wallpaper works very erratically

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kc1di wrote:Hi Cyan,

I'm not sure I understand the problem and what exactly do you mean by live wallpaper?
Do you mean the wallpaper that changes in the Cinnamon Desktop?

I use Variety wallpaper changer here and it works quite well with Cinnamon you can install it by following these instructions.
http://peterlevi.com/variety/how-to-install/
Good Luck :)
Hi kc1di,

Here's a tutorial on the LiveWallpaper I'm talking about(that's the actual name of it.) I don't know how popular it is, but I've seen it here and there. It has a few animated wallpapers, all of which malfunction for me in the same way(not all the time, but maybe half or 3/4 of the time.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak4TMeP9hDw

Variety looks like it might not have these animated wallpapers. Might be more similar to the automatic changing feature in Windows.

Thanks for the reply!
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