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It selects a random photo from those five photos and sets it as desktop wallpaper.\nThe setting Desktop Wallpaper feature supports only for Linux Mint 17.X. and Ubuntu.\n\n**API Key required** Get it here: [Flickr App Garden](https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/)\n\n### Flickr API method:\n`flickr.interestingness.getList`\n#### Arguments:\n`api_key` (Required) : Your API application key. See here for more details.\n\n`date` (Optional) : A specific date, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, to return interesting photos for.\n\n`extras` (Optional) : A comma-delimited list of extra information to fetch for each returned record. Currently supported fields are: description, license, date_upload, date_taken, owner_name, icon_server, original_format, last_update, geo, tags, machine_tags, o_dims, views, media, path_alias, url_sq, url_t, url_s, url_q, url_m, url_n, url_z, url_c, url_l, url_o\n\n`per_page` (Optional) : Number of photos to return per page. 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