What is Deskie ?
Deskie – A wallpaper changer app for Ubuntu , ready to rock your desktop with selection of wallpapers from over 35+ categories which are daily updated !
The above video shows what features are inside the app (version 1.0) .
Supported Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 12.04 and above .
Deskie Wallpaper Changer Ubuntu Linux
Current version: Deskie 4.0
Download Deskie for Ubuntu :
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New Features in version 4.0:
1- Deskie will not ask for password to run wall-demon at app startup it will only ask when you will use slideshow feature 🙂
2- Improved themes and other functionalities.
3- Speed improvement and clear Grid view wallpaper show case.
New Features in version 3.0:
1- View Download wallpapers in Grid View fast and memory efficient then our old parallax style List View way.
2- More Themes added.
3- Usability enhancements.
New Features in version 2.0:
1- Integration with gnome-walldemon (makes deskie more powerful and lightweight).
2- Check for updates on startup.
3- Themes, Deskie comes with 4 colorful themes.
4- Can open wallpapers in system image viewer.
5- Deskie will know about your wallpaper you currently using and will set it to its background it self , thanks to wallpaper demon recently added to app which need root permission from user but it make brings the whole new bundle of features which i will be adding soon in future , also due to walldemon it make deskie consume less RAM and processing power when you are running a slideshow of wallpaper specially a slideshow of 10sec and deskie is sleeping in your system-tray .
6- Deskie know what wallpaper you have downloaded earlier !! so it will show a available offline button which will make it clear that you dont have to download it again !! or accidentally user sometime after a long use forget whats in the library already so deskie keep track on whats going on.
Deskie is opensource from version 2.0 here is github repo .
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Alternatively you can –
Install Ubuntu Play Store to Install and update Deskie On your Ubuntu Dekstop:
It is exclusively available in Ubuntu Play Store and future versions will be updated there too .
Install Ubuntu Play Store :
Ubuntu play Store is like Google’s play store by which you get access to lots of third party apps Developed by Developers around the world . Ubuntu Play store and apps listed in it are maintained by Keshav Bhatt (Owner of Ktechpit.com )
Get latest nightly build version from here :
Download for Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit