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Hi :) I noticed after getting close to around 400 different wallpapers / desktop backgrounds (I have about 450 right now), that the [Desktop Settings] --> [Wallpaper for Workspace 1] --> [Change the background] --> [Random order] (in this case every ~60 seconds) ... is freezing (remaining stuck on one particular background/wallpaper) every 20 or so shuffles.

Is there a workaround for this, or maybe a different wallpaper manager that could do the trick? I think it might have something to do with there simply being too many backgrounds to select from, which is causing selection/retrieval errors due to them not loading in memory fast enough or something.

I use Variety.

I'm wondering if it's freezing on one particular wallpaper, or a random one.
But Variety is very nice!

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Actually, it may matter, as Stevo said, whether it is freezing on specific wallpapers or just randomly.

Some images have lots of metadata inserted into the image. I wonder if that makes a difference. I recall during testing of (I think) MX18, some metadata was causing the XFCE desktop to display certain images in portrait orientation instead of landscape .

Thanks for the replies, everyone - I switched to Variety and it works great, except for one thing, which is that every time it shuffles a wallpaper there's an intermediate "black screen blink" for a fraction of a second, rather than the seamless transitions of the base MX wallpaper shuffler. Is there a way to prevent that ('blink') from happening -- maybe in the compositor or something?