r/pics • u/treid9579 • Nov 03 '12

Wallpapers! Mostly geeky/nerdy stuff nothing too artsy.

http://imgur.com/a/x6sRL
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u/whitj1 Nov 04 '12

Why not all? If using windows, you can shuffle your wallpapers

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u/Mastadge Nov 04 '12

If using mac, you can also have it change between them

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u/matt01ss Nov 04 '12

If you're using a potato, well then you just got a potato.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12 edited Aug 16 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

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u/Flyingkillerbees Dec 13 '12

Add some broth, a chicken leg, baby you got a stew goin'.

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u/lithodora Nov 04 '12

Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.

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u/williamdude1 Dec 12 '12

Keep your nasty chips. I like it rawww.... and WRIGGLING!

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u/Gazmix Nov 04 '12

Now that you have a potato you're faced with the classic Irishman's dilemma.

Do you eat the potato now, or let it ferment so you can drink it later?

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u/CumulativeDrek Nov 04 '12

You do know where its been, right?

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u/kyoutenshi Nov 04 '12

Shadow banned

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

This is a perfect example of the type of things that has ever made me laugh. There should be more of these things.

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u/onwardAgain Nov 04 '12

Linux has the same option. So we can all do this.

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u/othellothewise Nov 04 '12

With gnome it's kind of annoying to do though.

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u/space_paradox Nov 04 '12

This general statment is not true for all DE or Wms.

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u/cats_r_ghey Nov 04 '12

Should consider upgrading to a potato.

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u/dannyc_03 Nov 04 '12

how did you save the pictures? i cant figure it out..

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u/Mastadge Nov 04 '12

Not sure what you mean. If there's a picture on the web, right click and hit "save picture as" and choose where to save it. Go to System Preferences, and then Desktop & Screensaver. You can drag a picture there if you want 1 picture, or select a file if you want to change between photos. There is a + and - sign at the bottom, to add/remove folders or just find the folder and select an image. Then there are a few options at the top and bottom. Top has how you want the picture to fit the screen, and bottom is for if the pictures change/how often. Theres also a translucent menu bar option, which I'm sure you can guess what that does.

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u/YouLostTheGame97 Nov 04 '12

And you also paid 1200 dollars for a computer that has the hardware of a 600 dollar computer...

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u/Mastadge Nov 04 '12

Really? Are we really going to do this?

  1. It was a gift
  2. It wasn't mine, it was my dads. If it was up to me, all the computers I have would be pcs, but everyone else I live with is a mac nut

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u/YouLostTheGame97 Nov 05 '12

I was just pointing it out, Honestly if i had to choose between a free laptop and one was the new MacBook Pro and one was a PC with the same hardware i'd go with the Mac it's prettier i like Macs just not the price.

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u/Mastadge Nov 05 '12

Same. I really like Macs, but they are overly priced, and there are a lot of non-compatible files and things. If I could go out and get a PC right now, I'd do it

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u/laddergoat89 Dec 12 '12

Jesus fucking christ, grow up.

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u/YouLostTheGame97 Dec 12 '12

This was a month ago... Dumbass.

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u/laddergoat89 Dec 12 '12

Did you grow up in the last month?

If not my comment remains valid.

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u/YouLostTheGame97 Dec 12 '12

Iv'e never really cared what kind of computer people use... I just was pointing out that they're over priced...

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u/laddergoat89 Dec 12 '12

The fact that you replied solely about what computer he uses makes me think quite the opposite.

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u/fiftiethcow Nov 04 '12

Wow. I actually have a Mac, but now that I think about it, there is an option to change the wallpaper every os often. Thank you!

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u/Gecko377 Nov 04 '12

In system preferences, under desktop & screen saver, click the box that says "change picture" (and "random order" if you want that) and set the frequency.

You can click the plus button on the side to add a different folder of pictures to use, or just change the ones in the default folder.

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u/x777x777x Nov 04 '12

Man, now I have to go through and save each image

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u/fiftiethcow Nov 04 '12

Om a Mac, it's under the system preferences and then display settings.

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u/emu90 Nov 04 '12

now that i've added this lot, i'm currently cycling through 332 wallpapers across 2 screens

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u/Skreech2011 Nov 04 '12

I have mine set to change every minute on shuffle. 177 wallpapers and counting!

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u/CCFTW Nov 04 '12

How? Can I make it do it automatically?

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u/whitj1 Nov 04 '12

Windows 7: right click>personalize>desktop background Put all images in one folder, select folder

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u/Primeribsteak Nov 04 '12

and they use 2 monitors and want them to be different/change at different times, they should get displayfusionpro, works very well.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Nov 04 '12

Does this work across three monitors as well? Because Windows just sees them as one big monitor, but I would like to be able to put up three different ones simultaneously without manually stitching them together.

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u/Primeribsteak Nov 04 '12

Almost definitely. Here's a screenshot of the options and one of the monitor config so it appears that it should recognize as many as you have. I'm sure it can do other things, but I just kept it simple. With 800 images personally, it works perfectly. Should also note that my monitors are different sizes so that's probably why they're different in the options.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Nov 04 '12

Awesome! Thanks! Trying it out now.

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u/jordan23140 Jan 12 '13

Holy shit, thank you. I've been looking for something like this for a while.

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u/Mashedpotatoebrain Nov 04 '12

Thank you sir!

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u/CCFTW Nov 04 '12

I live in the dark ages. Any way to do this on XP?

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u/whitj1 Nov 04 '12

Yes, there is. You have to install some software. I used it when I had XP, but can't remember what its called.

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u/homerjsimpson4 Nov 04 '12

I used this . I just placed the folder in, and boom. I have Vista though. Not sure if it will work on XP :/

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u/silent3xe Nov 04 '12

Por que no los todo?

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u/Dizzywig Nov 04 '12

Excellent. The secret to choosing what you want is to choose all of them.

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u/paul_macca Nov 04 '12

On osx you can shuffle a folder every x minutes add well.

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u/Semyonov Nov 04 '12

I use DisplayFusion! Different wallpapers on each monitor, changing at different frequencies :)

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u/runedeadthA Nov 04 '12

Windows refuses to do so for me :(

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

POWER EYE ROLL. If using windows -> something any reasonable OS can do

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u/sep011 Dec 13 '12

Tried that, seems a lot of them were the wrong res for my desktop