Variety is a wallpaper manager for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.

Where supported, Variety sits as a tray icon to allow easy pausing and resuming. Otherwise, its desktop entry menu provides a similar set of options.

Variety also includes a range of image effects, such as oil painting and blur, as well as options to layer quotes and a clock onto the background.

Variety is available in the distro repositories of:

• Arch Linux
• Debian 9+
• Fedora
• OpenSUSE
• Ubuntu 16.04+

Variety backports to older Ubuntu releases are available at https://launchpad.net/~variety/+archive/ubuntu/stable (a NEW location as of April 2019).

To install Variety from source, you will need Git, Python 3.5+ and distutils-extra. To actually run Variety, you will also need the following:

• GTK+ 3
• gexiv2
• libnotify
• Python 3 libraries:
  • BeautifulSoup4
  • lxml
  • Pycairo
  • PyGObject, built with Cairo integration
  • ConfigObj
  • Pillow
  • pkg_resources (from setuptools)
  • Requests
  • Optional: httplib2 (for more quotes sources)
• Optional: imagemagick (for wallpaper filters)
• Optional: feh or nitrogen: used by default to set wallpapers on i3, openbox, and other WMs
• Optional: libayatana-indicator (for AppIndicator support)
• Optional: for tray icon support on GNOME, the GNOME AppIndicator extension

See debian/control for an equivalent list of runtime dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu.

1. Clone the git repository: git clone https://github.com/varietywalls/variety.git && cd variety

2. Run python3 setup.py install. By default, this will install Variety into /usr/local; for a local installation, use python3 setup.py install --prefix $HOME/.local.

3. Run variety from the command line or its desktop menu entry!