Add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop
(https://i0.wp.com/www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/gnome-picture-widget.webp?resize=406%2C232&ssl=1) If you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren't alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough flexibility, so forked and improved it. Picture Desktop Widget Remake improves on the original. It lets add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop, and assign each one a different folder to pull images from, at random. Plus, you can set the size, position, border radius and aspect ratio of each widget individually. Each photo frame has its own on/off button in Preferences, so you [...]
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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/desktop-picture-frame-widget-ubuntu Aug 14, 2026, 07:02 PM