How to reload Variety wallpaper changer?

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Published on 2012-10-20T04:12:32Z Indexed on 2012/10/20 5:22 UTC
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I have installed Variety desktop wallpaper changer. Its a good app. But sometimes when I start Ubuntu and login to my account it fails to load. I try to manually start the app by clicking on variety icon, but doesnt work.

I tried alt+F2 and enter 'killall gnome-panel' but nothing seems to happen.

I checked in my startup applications window, variety is present there to start when Ubuntu starts.

but then why it does not start always? Restarting my pc is the only solution then.

Is there a way that I can reload Variety without logging off or restarting Ubuntu?

Thanks in advance.

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