bst27/dynamic-wallpaper

Receive great wallpapers from online sources. Use cron expressions to define change interval.

About

This app changes your wallpaper. You can give an URL to define where to get the wallpaper(s) from. To define when to change your wallpaper you can use a cron expression.

Per default your wallpaper is changed every minute with a random image from Unsplash.

Usage:

./dynamic-wallpaper -url "<URL>" -cron "<CRON>"

You can pass a help argument to view a help message:

  -cron string
        Cron expression which defines when to change wallpaper (default "* * * * *")
  -url string
        URL which returns a wallpaper image (default "https://source.unsplash.com/random/1920x1080")

Examples

URL	Info	See
https://source.unsplash.com/random/1920x1080	Get random image with 1920x1080px from Unsplash	https://source.unsplash.com/
https://loremflickr.com/1920/1080/dog	Get random dog image with 1920x1080px	https://loremflickr.com/

Cron	Info
* * * * *	Change wallpaper at every minute
15 9 * * *	Change wallpaper at 09:15 every day
0 6 * * 1	Change wallpaper at 06:00 on monday

To fiddle around with cron expressions you can use crontab.guru.

Build

To build executables for multiple platforms you can use the build script at scripts/build.sh.