PapeChanger

This program switches your wallpaper to a random selection from a directory and allows changing the directory. It's meant to be invoked via a keyboard macro, though it will work from the command line.

demo_final.mp4

How to use

This program assumes you have a directory filled with directories filled with walpapers. If your walpapers are laid out in another configuration, You won't be able to use the directory switching capabilities. If your walpapers are laid out another way, you may wish to symlink your wallpapers into a directory structure that is compliant or look elsewhere for walpaper management

Once built, The program should be placed somehwere in your $PATH so it can be called. Set it up by running papeChanger -setup $SOME_PATH_TO_SOME_WALLPAPER, which should set your walpaper Test the directory changing functionality by running papeChanger -c. If it does not bring up a window to select your walpaper directory, try running it as papechanger -c --useBuiltin to use the built in directory switcher. Once you've confirmed it works on your system, you will want to bind papeChanger to a hotkey and papeChanger -c to another hotkey so you can change your walpapers without needing to open a terminal or run dialogue.

Installation

MacOS/Windows

If you are on MacOS or Windows, you can install papeChanger by downloading an installable build on the releases page. This will give you the PapeChanger Desktop Application which is installed and run in the way you would expect.

Command line

On all supported platforms, the core functionality of PapeChanger is available by running go install github.com/npmaile/papeChanger@latest in the terminal (a functioning Go environment is necessary) Once enough people complain, I'll probably make builds for all the systems available on the releases page like the packaged ones.

Building

Minimum Requirements

A functioning go environment
All of the requirements to build the fyne toolkit

Minimum Requirements (lite edition)

A functioning go environment
Rofi installed can be built by running cd extra/papeChanger-lite && CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o papechanger

Windows

It has a graphical component that requires a c compiler on windows Once you have one installed (only on windows), you can simply build using go build -o papeChanger main.go

Supported Systems

I will be supporting systems as I become aware of them. The two things necessary for a supported system are a mechanism in code to change the wallpaper and a window to choose which directory your walpapers are in.

npmaile/PapeChanger