The settings dialog controls the behaviour of John's Background Switcher. You launch it from the Notification Icon Menu. Here you can decide what pictures you want to choose for your background, how often you want your background to change and how you'd like your pictures displayed.
Picture Sets
The main list shows all the picture sets you're choosing from and you can check and un-check sets to enable and disable them.
To add picture sets click the 'Add' button and choose one of the following to source your pictures from:
Pictures on your computer
Folders on your computer
Flickr photos
Facebook photos
Instagram photos
Vladstudio wallpapers
500px photos
RSS photo feeds
Phanfare photos
SmugMug photos
Picasa web albums
Google image searches
Pixabay photos
LastFm Music
After choosing a picture source that sources dialog will appear letting you select what you want to see on your background. You can create as many picture sets as you like and every time your background changes a source will be chosen at random and pictures picked accordingly.
You can edit a picture set by double-clicking on it or selecting it and clicking 'Edit'. You can delete picture sets by selecting them in the list and clicking 'Delete'. You can disable a picture set by un-checking the checkbox next to the picture set's name.
Next you can click 'Authorise' to authenticate JBS with various on-line picture sources.
You can also bring up the 'More Settings' dialog by clicking 'More' to tweak John's Background Switcher as much as you like.
Switching Options
Finally, to decide how often to switch, what background you'd like to see and any multiple monitor options, you can set the 'Switching Options'. The options are fairly self explanatory:
- Change every. Choose your switching interval from 30 seconds to 7 days.
- Picture mode. You want a single picture per background? A mosaic? Postcards? Or a random choice every time? Easy! If you want to set the picture mode for each picture source, there's an option on 'Picture Handling' on the 'More Settings' dialog and then the drop-down list will be replaced with a button to let you set each picture mode individually.
- Multiple monitors. You've got more than one monitor? Cool! Here you can choose if you'd like different pictures on each one, the same, one across all, on one only, it's your call! More details here.
See also:
The More Settings Dialog
The Authorise Dialog
Multiple Monitors