Support generating image only?
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Is building in support to generate an image only something that is out of scope for this project? I'm considering building out a Docker container that builds from source and outputs a file to a network share so I can reuse the generated image across machines.
There's actually already support for this - it's just that the only way to discover it is through the command line help. (Funnily enough, I had just fixed a bug with it when I got the notification for this issue.)
What you're looking for is the --once/SATPAPER_ONCE argument:
-o, --once
Whether or not to only run once.
By default, Satpaper is designed to run in the background - it stays resident once launched and peroidically
attempts to update your wallpaper.
With --once set, Satpaper will instead generate one wallpaper and terminate, without affecting your existing
wallpaper or staying resident.
This is ideal if you want to use Satpaper as a simple wallpaper generator or as part of a
larger script/program.
[env: SATPAPER_ONCE=]
Practically, you would run it like this:
satpaper --satellite goes-east -x 2560 -y 1440 -d 95 -t <SOME_TARGET_PATH> --once
... Which should generate an image, save it to <SOME_TARGET_PATH>, and then terminate without attempting to futz with the desktop environment.
Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks!
No problem! And thanks for filing this issue - I totally forgot to document these options in the README.
Success 😎
