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Wallpaper Changer

Just a python script to change my wallpapers with my configs.

Installation

Download and extract the repo

git clone https://github.com/GitOffMyLAN/wallpaper-changer.git && cd wallpaper-changer && bash install.sh

You will need to add these commands to your i3wm config

exec_always --no-startup-id feh --bg-scale ~/.config/wall.png
exec_always --no-startup-d wal -c -g -i ~/.config/wall.png -a 70
exec_always --no-startup-id bash ~/.config/wallpaperchanger/launch.sh

This will make your wallpaper change on reset every 5 minutes (you can change the config file and the wallpaper file to your liking)

exec_always --no-startup-id bash ~/.config/wallpaperchanger/launch.sh

This will make your wallpaper change on reset every 5 minutes (you can change the config file and the wallpaper file to your liking)

You need to isntall https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal pywal for the script to work, it will set your background and colour scheme, the script will also need feh to open the file on login.

Syntax

After install the comand works, with

  • First argument MUST be the directory of your wallaper folder (and it must only have images in it)
  • Second argument MUST be the place in your config you store you wallpaper for feh
  • Third arguemnt MUST be the time between wallpapers chaging and updating
  • Forth argument MUST be the trasnparecy of your terminal you can change these values in ~/.config/wallpaperchanger/launch.sh