/wallchanger

Automatically fetch and update wallpaper.

Primary LanguagePython

Wallchanger - Wallpaper changer for gnome

Automatically fetch and update wallpaper on Gnome. Currently supported wallpaper sources are Bing and NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD).

Instructions

Automatic installation

  • Close or download this repository on a gnome desktop environment.
  • Run install.sh to link and add it to your startup applications (if wanted).

Manual installation and execution

  • Run ./main.py to execute the program, download an image and make it your wallpaper.
  • Add a symbolic link ~/bin/wch to <wallpapcher_changer_path>/main.py.
  • Add a line to your .bashrc to export the newly created binary path export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH.
  • You can now run the wallpaper changer from the terminal with wch.
  • You can set it up to run automatically or define a job in crontabs to run it.