Bug#777743: ITP: wallpaperd -- X wallpaper changing daemon

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Dmitry Bogatov dijo [Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:43:17AM +0300]:
>  - why is this package useful/relevant?
> 
> It follows unix way and manages wallpapers without connection to
> your DE, WM or anything.
> (...)
> if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does it compare?
> 
> Such functionality exists in GNOME and KDE, at least. But I know nothing similar
> for bare WM.

I guess I do this the ugliest possible way, but my .xsession has:

BGDIR=/home/gwolf/.backgrounds
while /bin/true
do
    feh --bg-max $BGDIR/$(xscreensaver-getimage-file $BGDIR)
    sleep 60
done &

I guess there's more to wallpaperd than this, right?