Gnome Wallpaper Slideshow
This lightweight utility is simply a python script that renders a GTK+ GUI allowing you to choose a directory containing images, as well as set picture and transition durations.
Once you confirm your choices, it writes an xml file out to
~/.gnome-wallpaper/gnome-wallpaper-slideshow.xml, which is used by the Gnome to render the desktop. It also outputs a plaintext file to ~/.gnome-wallpaper/gnome-wallpaper-slideshow.config that records the options selected in the GUI so it's able to reload them next time you run the script. As soon as you've exited the application, you'll notice your desktop change and begin cycling through the images.The only issue I found was not being able to set a preference for how I wanted to fit my images to the desktop; i.e. whether they should be centred, tiled, stretched, etc. Instead, Gnome simply resizes the images to fit the desktop. This was a problem for me as some of the images I had chosen were not the same size as my desktop and looked odd when scaled.
Wallpapoz
I found this application to be a bit more full-featured: it's possible to define a different image for each desktop, as well as specify your preference for whether an image should be scaled to the size of the desktop, used as a tile, or displayed at it's original size. On top of that, the software is available from the Fedora yum repository, so installing it was as simple as typing
yum install wallpapoz into a terminal as root.Once installed, you can access the program through the Gnome Applications menu (Applications -> Accessories -> Wallpapoz).
You are able to add directories or individual files to cycle through, while the preferences window gives you access to the more advanced functions.
Out of the two applications, I initially preferred gnome-wallpaper-slideshow because it was so lightweight. However, I eventually opted to use Wallpapoz, because of the image scaling issues I mentioned earlier.
