King_Critter

#!/usr/bin/env python
from easygconf import GConfDict
from daemon import Daemon
import time
import random
import os

gc = GConfDict('/desktop/gnome/background')

dirname = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), "pics/wallpaper/safe/")

wallpapers = [f for f in os.listdir(dirname)
        if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(dirname, f))]

class MyDaemon(Daemon):
        def run(self):
                while True:
                        dice = random.randint(0,(len(wallpapers)-1))
                        gc["picture_filename"] = dirname + wallpapers[dice]
                        time.sleep(60*5)

daemon = MyDaemon('/tmp/critters-wallpaper-switcher.pid')
daemon.start()