HowTo: randomize LightDM / XFCE v4.x login screen wallpaper images. For fans of the lightweight and highly configurable linux desktop environment XFCE, with it’s default Greeter managed by LightDM, it’s a frustrating fact of reality that there is no built in way to randomize the login screen image. This simple perl script and directory layout will provide that service using a cron job. The process will copy a random image file from a directory that contains a pool of images into a ‘publish’ directory; as background.

The purpose of this article is to aid those who want to run cutting edge vim things. Vim 8.1 provides :terminal. This is BIG NEWS and has opened some pretty cool plugins such as markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim. Additionally, if you want deoplete.nvim to work properly you’ll need to compile vim against python3 anyway. The most single/main user way I’ve found to make these plugins work is to compile Vim from source.