Smoothly gliding from one wallpaper to the next.
The script when set up correctly, can periodically change your wallpaper. It will pick from different sets of wallpapers depending on the time of day, so you are not blinded at night by light wallpapers!
This only works on the Gnome Desktop Environment.
Create 3 folders (day, dusk and night) in your Wallpaper folder and populate them with images;
Download the script to a folder and make it executable (right click > Properties > Executable as Program);
Open the script, update the path to the folders created (add your username) in the script and either start using it (adding its directory to your $PATH is optional), or configure cron by running crontab -e and adding the code below to run it automatically and periodically.
*/5 * * * * /bin/bash /home/USERNAME/.scripts/GnomeGlider -c 2>&1
Adding this to cron will run the script every 5 minutes with -c argument and send any errors/outputs to dev null (digital limbo).
While the script will run often, the wallpaper will only change after a certain amount of time has elapsed.
Tweak the time interval to your liking. Make sure to actually put your username in the command above.
If you are on Fedora you may need to install cron with sudo dnf install cronie.
$USER won't work with cron.
The editor I use in the demo to edit cron is called micro.
Run GnomeGlider -h for help.