Picture of day in PLASMA

sir i am using manjaro gnome , i like it due to good features gnome have. one thing that i find missing is PICTURE OF DAY in background themes found in PLASMA . can i install it in GNOME ?

I’m afraid Plasma components don’t work well with GNOME ─ they are distinctly different desktop environments, with an equally different underlying framework of shared libraries and widgets.

There are a few GNOME Shell extensions in the AUR that allow you to switch between wallpapers, such as… :arrow_down:

Name of AUR package                         Description
-------------------                         -----------
gnome-wallpaper-changer-git                 switches between wallpapers in a directory
gnome-shell-extension-bing-wallpaper        switches between Bing wallpapers
wallpaper-switch                            switches between wallpapers in a directory
dynamic-wallpaper-catalina-gnome-timed-git  switches between macOS Catalina wallpapers
dynamic-wallpaper-mojave-gnome-timed-git    switches between macOS Mojave wallpapers

In order to install the AUR package of your choice, issue the following command… :arrow_down:

pamac build NAME_OF_THE_PACKAGE

thanks , no will install the same software that is in plasma otherwise i will remain without the beauty of picture of day

I’m afraid you misunderstand the situation. You cannot use the Plasma variant of that software in GNOME ─ they are not compatible. That’s why you need one of the GNOME extensions to do that sort of thing, and I’ve given you a whole list of possible extensions.

You can start with gnome-wallpaper-changer-git and see if you like it. :arrow_down:

pamac build gnome-wallpaper-changer-git

manjaro% pamac build gnome-wallpaper-changer-git
Preparing…
Cloning gnome-wallpaper-changer-git build files…
Note: switching to ‘443e68586b6b5881a08f5b99da9f8d8a5089daf1’.

You are in ‘detached HEAD’ state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by switching back to a branch.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

git switch -c

Or undo this operation with:

git switch -

Turn off this advice by setting config variable advice.detachedHead to false

Checking gnome-wallpaper-changer-git dependencies…
bsdtar: Failed to set default locale
Resolving dependencies…
Checking inter-conflicts…

To build (1):
gnome-wallpaper-changer-git r10.046d103-1 AUR

Edit build files : [e]
Apply transaction ? [e/y/N] y

Building gnome-wallpaper-changer-git…
==> Making package: gnome-wallpaper-changer-git r10.046d103-1 (Wed Mar 24 08:36:44 2021)
==> Checking runtime dependencies…
==> Checking buildtime dependencies…
==> Retrieving sources…
→ Cloning gnome-wallpaper-changer-git git repo…
Cloning into bare repository ‘/var/tmp/pamac-build-raman/gnome-wallpaper-changer-git/gnome-wallpaper-changer-git’…
remote: Enumerating objects: 34, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (34/34), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done.
remote: Total 34 (delta 20), reused 34 (delta 20), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (34/34), 4.56 KiB | 4.56 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (20/20), done.
→ Found gnome-wallpaper-changer.install
==> Validating source files with md5sums…
gnome-wallpaper-changer-git … Skipped
gnome-wallpaper-changer.install … Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory…
==> Extracting sources…
→ Creating working copy of gnome-wallpaper-changer-git git repo…
Cloning into ‘gnome-wallpaper-changer-git’…
done.
==> Starting pkgver()…
==> Entering fakeroot environment…
==> Starting package()…
==> Tidying install…
→ Removing libtool files…
→ Purging unwanted files…
→ Removing static library files…
→ Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries…
→ Compressing man and info pages…
==> Checking for packaging issues…
==> Creating package “gnome-wallpaper-changer-git”…
→ Generating .PKGINFO file…
→ Generating .BUILDINFO file…
→ Adding install file…
→ Generating .MTREE file…
→ Compressing package…
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: gnome-wallpaper-changer-git r10.046d103-1 (Wed Mar 24 08:36:48 2021)
==> Cleaning up…

Checking keyring… [1/1]
Checking integrity… [1/1]
Loading packages files… [1/1]
Checking file conflicts… [1/1]
Checking available disk space… [1/1]
Installing gnome-wallpaper-changer-git (r10.046d103-1)… [1/1]

A config file has been written to ‘~/.config/autostart/’. Settings such as change interval and source images can be changed there as application parameters.

Transaction successfully finished.
manjaro%

i want to uninstall it. it is ugly. is has no options for changing automatically from nasa and other sources

Then uninstall it, and try wallpaper-switch next. :wink:

manjaro% sudo pamac remove -build gnome-wallpaper-changer-git
[sudo] password for raman:
Remove packages

pamac remove [options] [package(s),group(s)]

options:
–unneeded, -u : remove packages only if they are not required by any other packages
–orphans, -o : remove dependencies that are not required by other packages, if this option is used without
package name remove all orphans
–no-orphans : do not remove dependencies that are not required by other packages
–no-save, -n : ignore files backup
–dry-run, -d : only print what would be done but do not run the transaction
–no-confirm : bypass any and all confirmation messages
manjaro% sudo pamac -gnome-wallpaper-changer-git

Available actions:
pamac --version
pamac --help, -h [action]
pamac search [options] <package(s)>
pamac list [options] <package(s)>
pamac info [options] <package(s)>
pamac install [options] <package(s)>
pamac reinstall [options] <package(s)>
pamac remove [options] [package(s)]
pamac checkupdates [options]
pamac update,upgrade [options]
pamac clone [options] <package(s)>
pamac build [options] [package(s)]
pamac clean [options]
manjaro% sudo pamac remove -gnome-wallpaper-changer-git

Remove packages

pamac remove [options] [package(s),group(s)]

options:
–unneeded, -u : remove packages only if they are not required by any other packages
–orphans, -o : remove dependencies that are not required by other packages, if this option is used without
package name remove all orphans
–no-orphans : do not remove dependencies that are not required by other packages
–no-save, -n : ignore files backup
–dry-run, -d : only print what would be done but do not run the transaction
–no-confirm : bypass any and all confirmation messages
manjaro%

how to uninstall it?

pamac remove gnome-wallpaper-changer-git

You don’t need sudo. pamac will prompt you for the password itself.