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Wondering if there is a working version of Wallch for 16.04 x64? The package available doesn't seem to work - runs, but will not even show the pictures in the config... Thanks.

hornetster
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  • in preferences in wallch, i changed from MATE to GNOME and now it works. before, i would activate live earth and nothing would happen. once i made that change and closed and reopened wallch it now works. – derek p Dec 25 '16 at 17:12

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The version in the default repositories is not currently compatible with 16.04. It installs but doesn't actually work once you set it up.

Adding the repository ppa:wallch/wallch-daily in 16.04 returns a "This PPA does not support xenial" error.

Install Wallch from this page: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&searchon=names&keywords=wallch

Under Download "wallch" just click the APT install button and follow the installer on screen.

Alternatively you can download the 64 bit deb package and install manually with 

sudo dpkg -i wallch_4.0-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
LiveWireBT
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C. lepidus
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    Your answer is correct but link only answers are discouraged. Please edit and explain the steps. Give me a nudge when you do that so I can upvote. –  Dec 23 '16 at 14:46
  • I have no idea what the purpose of ubuntuupdates.org is, it always looks like a scam site for people who don't know their way around the official pages and it has ads. The package it offers is from the official repository, so I don't see a point in downloading manually. – LiveWireBT Dec 23 '16 at 20:51
  • I find it strange that this says the version from the repositories is not compatible, and then suggests downloading from those very same repositories! **`xenial` is 16.04**. – muru Sep 19 '17 at 11:47
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I have it running and displaying BitDay-2 though out the day since it was posted on OMG Ubuntu. I wouldn't say it runs flawless, but once it's configured and I ticked Wallpapers on the indicator menu it started cycling the wallpapers I set.

Can you elaborate on the issue you are having?

Edit: Okay this is tricky, here is what I'm currently doing to have wallpapers cycle with this tool and working around it's current flaws:

  1. Open the application, select the directory in wallpapers, then got to settings an configure the specific interval you want to use as the higher value, and a lower value, it should automatically set the higher value as default.
  2. Close the application.
  3. Open the application with wallch --start, you can do that in Unity via Alt+F2. Only cycle the wallpapers through the indicator menu items previous or next now.
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