dynamic-wallpaper

Simple bash script to set a Dynamic Wallpaper according to certain conditions (currently TIME).

How to install

Follow the steps below (You can run test.sh to test it before installing it on your system) -

• Install feh, xrandr(for xfce only)

# On Archlinux
sudo pacman -Sy xorg-xrandr feh

# On Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils feh

• For swaywm support users must install oguri. The oguri daemon must be started for the script to work. Oguri can be installed on Arch linux via AUR.

• Clone this repository and...

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper.git
cd dynamic-wallpaper
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

• Run the program and choose an option

$ dwall

Dynamic Wallpaper V1.0
Simple program to set a dynamic desktop background based on current time.
Developed By - Aditya Shakya (@adi1090x)

usage: ./test.sh [-s] style [-o] style [-h]

-s  style     name of theme/style.
-o  style     Run once and exit, useful for schedulers (cron).
-h  help      show this usage/help message.

Styles Dir: /home/aditya/adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper/images

Available styles/themes:  bitday  exodus  firewatch  firewatch2  firewatch3  forest  home
maldives  mall  mojave  moon  room  seoul  street  street2  surface  tokyostreet  

Features

• Dynamic style selection.
• User can add their own wallpapers.
• 17+ different types of wallpaper set (HD, UHD).
• (Currently) Change according to time, throughout the day.
• Tested on - WM: Openbox, i3wm, bspwm, awesomewm, Fluxbox, Fvwm, Swaywm & DE: KDE(neon), Pantheon, Gnome(ubuntu, pop_os), Deepin, Cinnamon, XFCE, LXDE, MATE.

How to add own wallpapers

• Download a wallpaper set you like.
• Make a dir in /usr/share/dynamic-wallpaper/images
• Rename your images(must be jpg/png) to 0-23. If you don't have enough images, symlink them.
• Run the program and apply it.

More Wallpapers : To not make repo big in size, I've put large wallpapers set to another place & also not everyone wants all the wallpapers. You can download these wallpapers set from here -

Sets : catalina, london, mojaveHD, mountfuji, surface

Previews

Bit Day	Exodus	Firewatch	Firewatch Alt

Forest	Home	Maldives	Mall

Mojave	Moon	Room	Seoul

Street	Street Alt	Surface	Tokyo Streets

Common Issues

1. Wallpaper not changing : If your wallpaper is not changing, then open an issue and show me the output of echo $DESKTOP_SESSION.

2. Not working on XFCE : If this script is not working on xfce, then open the terminal and run xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -m and change the wallpaper (any) via xfce4-settings-manager.
   In terminal, xfconf-query will print lines starting with set:, which show which properties have been changed, check screen & monitor values and modify the script accordingly.

53   ## For XFCE
54   if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux"* ]]; then
55   	 SCREEN="0"
56       MONITOR="1"
57   fi

3. Autostart : If you want to autostart the script with desktop, you can add it to your WM autostart file & if doesn't work for you, you can create a desktop file in $HOME/.config/autostart dir.

$ cd $HOME/.config/autostart && touch dwall.desktop

# Add this to dwall.desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Dynamic Wallpaper
Comment=Simple script, shows a Dynamic Wallpaper based on TIME.
Exec=/usr/bin/dwall -s firewatch &
Type=Application
Icon=wallpaper
Categories=Accessories;

4. Cronjob : If you want to run it with cron, you may need to define these environment variables,

• SHELL
• DISPLAY
• DESKTOP_SESSION
• XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
• XDG_DATA_DIRS
• DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

You can find what values your environment has by typing env in your terminal or check each variable via echo $VARIABLE_NAME.

Support This Project

FYI

• In KDE, it changes the wallpaper in all the Activities.
• If you can improve it, you're welcome.
• You can add dwall -s style & to your wm autostart file to set it as wallpaper after login.
• Have Fun!