process-wallpaper

Python and shell scripts which set your wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most resource-intensive processes presently running.

Depenendencies

python3
gsettings (comes preinstalled with GNOME), plasmashell (comes with KDE) or feh (supported by many Linux distributions).

If gsettings, plasmashell and feh are all not supported by your platform, you can still set wallpaper.png as your wallpaper manually.

Setup

Clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/anirudhajith/process-wallpaper.git
cd process-wallpaper

Set the resolution of your display in config.json
Install Python dependencies.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user

Run setup.sh

./setup.sh

Use

The wallpaper is updated every time updateWallpaper.sh is run. To trigger the update every minute, append the following line to crontab -e, remember to replace /path/to/script/directory with the directory of your scripts.

KDE

* * * * * export "binpath=/path/to/script/directory"; "DISPLAY=:$(ls -1 /tmp/.X11-unix/X* | grep -oE "[0-9]*$" | sort -n | head -1)"; export "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bus"; (pushd "${binpath}" && ./updateWallpaper.sh && ./setWallpaper.sh; popd) 2>&1 | logger -t "process-wallpaper"

Most other

* * * * * cd /path/to/script/directory && ./updateWallpaper.sh > /tmp/wallpaper.log 2>&1