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Title: Variety app does not run at startup
Post by: ale23 on October 13, 2022, 04:02:49 PM
Help, Variety app wallpaper change does not run at startup,the option to start when starting the system is activated but dont run auto change wallpapers.
Sparkylinux 6.4 po-tolo openbox 5.10amd64
Title: Re: Variety app does not run at startup
Post by: pavroo on October 13, 2022, 05:03:52 PM
It does not work in small window managers.
In a case of Openbox, add the variety command to the Openbox startup script:
$HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.shsuch as:
your-command &
Title: Re: Variety app does not run at startup
Post by: ale23 on October 13, 2022, 05:51:13 PM
Sorry you mean a comand.. /usr/bin/variety --profile /home/ale/.config/variety/  ?
Title: Re: Variety app does not run at startup
Post by: AxL on October 13, 2022, 10:22:47 PM
Quote from: ale23 on October 13, 2022, 05:51:13 PMSorry you mean a comand.. /usr/bin/variety --profile /home/ale/.config/variety/  ?

You only have to add:

variety &
to the autostart file of your Openbox, in ~/.config/openbox/autostart



Graphic example:

(https://i.imgur.com/PEVzHBr.png)








Cherrs!!  (https://i.imgur.com/emjz0.gif)

Title: Re: Variety app does not run at startup
Post by: ale23 on October 14, 2022, 05:27:20 PM
It works perfect! thank you very much for your time.
Title: Re: Variety app does not run at startup
Post by: AxL on October 14, 2022, 06:19:17 PM
Quote from: ale23 on October 14, 2022, 05:27:20 PMIt works perfect! thank you very much for your time.


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