Beta 130

Beta 130 is now available, Here is the Getting Started Guide.

To get your copy of the CD, go here.

There is a new slideshow application, that will display all of the built-in desktop wallpaper images. They will be applied to the desktop as wallpaper, and changed periodically as in a slideshow. This is not a "screensaver", and the desktop is not locked.

There is another application called "Screen Lock" that does that. It requires a Ctrl-Alt-F1 keypress to unlock. This application runs only from a system that is booted using the Rapidweather CD, and not the "loadlin" method.

Currently, the Wallpaper Control Center is used to select an individual wallpaper, either downloaded by the user, or one of the built-in wallpapers, and apply that one as the "desktop wallpaper".
With the new "slideshow" application, we now have a way to cycle through the various built-in wallpaper images, having each one in turn applied as wallpaper for a timed interval, that being fixed by the application.

The "interval" varies, so each wallpaper does not remain in place for the same amount of time.
Downloaded wallpaper images are not included, the application works with the built-in images only.

You may switch to KDE, from the default IceWM desktop, and use KDE's application to create a slideshow of your downloaded wallpaper images. Just right-click on the KDE desktop to configure a KDE-only desktop slideshow. The Slideshow application described above will also have a KDE desktop icon to start it within KDE.

Right now, the Slideshow is accessed via the IceWM menu, later on I will also add a button for it on the Wallpaper Control Center interface.

Stay Tuned!