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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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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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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.
LiveWireBT
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