cmiles74/bingwallpaper

Sets your desktop background to the Bing "picture of the day"

Bing Wallpaper

This project provides a simple Ruby script that will download the "Image of the Day" from Bing and then sets it as your current wallpaper. There are several tools out there that do this, this particular tool works under Linux.

If you find this code useful in any way, please feel free to...

How It Works

I wrote this script with my own environment in mind, so it's pretty simple-minded. It fetches the XML describing today's image, then fetches the 1920x1200 sized version if it's available, the lower resolution version if not. Lastly, it uses Feh, swaymsg or Gnome to set the wallpaper for your environment. I've tested it in i3, Sway and Gnome 3.14.2 and nowhere else.

Using the Script

Just install the gem...

gem install bingwallpaper

And then invoke the script like so to set your wallpaper and lock screen to the Bing Picture of the Day in Gnome.

bingwallpaper -g -l

Here's the usage information...

Usage: bingwallpaper [options]
    -g, --gnome                      Set Gnome background
    -l, --lock                       Set Gnome lock screen background
    -f, --feg                        Use feh to set the  background (the default)
    -s, --sway                       Use swaymsg to set the background, overwrite \
                                       ~/.config/sway/config.d/wallpaper
    -h, --help                       Prints this help

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