# How to set up a rotating wallpaper in both Windows and Linux?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 2, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-set-up-a-rotating-wallpaper-in-both-windows-and-linux/447705 "2008-05-02T02:59:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-set-up-a-rotating-wallpaper-in-both-windows-and-linux/447705/1 "2008-05-02T02:59:26Z")

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This is pretty much self-explanatory. I want a setup where every, say, fifth time I boot into my Windows install or my Linux install (same computer), my wallpaper changes to the next image in a particular folder on my hard disk. I want it to fill the screen in stretch mode. I run Windows XP Pro and Debian etch with Enlightenment 0.16.7.2-5 and [X.org](http://X.org) 7.1.0-19. Just a single monitor this time.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-set-up-a-rotating-wallpaper-in-both-windows-and-linux/447705/2 "2008-05-02T03:24:43Z")

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Google “Wallpaper switcher”

There are millions of them with a variety of features.

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-set-up-a-rotating-wallpaper-in-both-windows-and-linux/447705/3 "2008-05-02T12:44:06Z")

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I guess there are a lot, although the one I found and use is Microsoft’s “Wallpaper Changer” (free) but that’s Windows only, not Linux.