soroushchehresa/unsplash-wallpapers

🖼️ A cross-platform desktop application to set wallpapers from Unsplash built with Electron, React, and Redux

Unsplash Wallpapers

A menubar application for Mac, Windows and Linux that brings stunning wallpapers from Unsplash right to your desktop. Works on macOS 10.12+, Windows 10+ and Linux.

This project is an unofficial cross-platform desktop application based on Unsplash Wallpapers official application for Mac with more features and better performance.

Installation

Features

• Load high-quality wallpapers based on Unsplash popular categories.
• Cloud-hosted builds (Based on GitHub releases).
• Work on all popular operating systems like macOS, Windows and Linux.
• Wallpapers history list.
• Automatic set wallpapers hourly, daily, weekly and manual (optional).
• Run at startup system (Optional).
• Dark mode (Optional or auto by OS).
• Download directly ability for each wallpaper.

Technologies

• Electron
• React
• Redux
• immutable-js
• redux-saga
• styled-components
• Axios
• Wallpaper
• electron-json-storage
• Flow
• ESLint - Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide

Let's run

1. Clone the project:

$ git clone https://github.com/soroushchehresa/unsplash-wallpapers.git unsplash-wallpapers

2. Add Unsplash access key:

Place Your Unsplash access key as UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY in .env file.

3. Start:

Development

$ yarn && yarn dev

# OR

$ npm i && npm run dev

Production

$ yarn && yarn package-all

# OR

$ npm i && npm run package-all

Support

unsplash-wallpapers's Issues

Using Proxy

It would be great if the app had proxy settings specifically for users in countries where the government filters Unsplash.

Application is unusable if taskbar is located on the side of the screen on win 10

UI goes out of bounds when Taskbar position is set at Top

When the position of taskbar is set at top position, the UI is not accessible.

Wallpaper update not working

Hey, I changed from splashy to unsplash-wallpapers v1.1.0 but noticed the daily update is not working (Win10 1909). A shorter update interval would also be nice - e.g. hourly.

Are contributions welcome?

Is this the same usplash app that is available here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsplash-wallpapers/id1284863847?mt=12 ? I use this little app and love it. I'd really like to contribute if contributions are welcome. I have a few ideas for enhancements.

Select from multiple topics

It would be nice if we could select multiple categories to see wallpapers from. How this should be handled though is probably worth debating - each time a new wallpaper needs to be selected, does the program go through selected categories sequentially, randomly, in a user-selected manner, or something else?

feature: change directory of downloaded pictures

Hey there,
i cannot find any config lines where to change the download dir for pictures.
Is it possible to change that?

Can not set wallpaper on Windows 11

Version: 1.3.0
After clicking the "Set as Wallpaper", the app will just infinite loading and didn't change the wallpaper on Windows 11
Similar to these closed issues:
#14
#6

Wallpaper does not automatically update

I have set Unsplash Wallpapers to update hourly, but it never updates. I can only get a new wallpaper by updating manually.

This issue plus #19 make this app nearly non-functional for me.

I'm on Windows 10 21H1. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help troubleshoot!

Doesn't start with Windows

On Windows 10 21H2, it looks like this app doesn't start after booting the computer and logging in. I have to manually launch it.

The option to start with Windows is checked inside the app, and Task Manager shows that this app is enabled for startup.

Version 1.3.0

Feature Request: recognize display size and query unsplash acordingly

I'm very impressed with this multi-platform tool, wish I found it earlier! There's one thing I'm facing with macOS though and I'm not sure if this is working as intended. Any wallpaper I download don't fill my screen (3440x1440). I am aware that my screen is wider than most other people will have, but my suggestion might suit others too.

In Unsplash, there's an info pane that allows to see the resolution of the photo as such:

Would it be possible to accommodate for the screen size, and use these as query parameters when looking for wallpapers in Unsplash? According to the API it should be possible to do so via, for example, photo.urls.raw + "&w=1500&dpr=2" - https://unsplash.com/documentation

If you have your task barr in the top, the unspashh windows has the wrong location

If you have your task bar in the top, the unspashh windows has the wrong location.

OS: windows 10

1. so, move your task bar to the top.
2. try to click the unspash icon.

what happen: the windows is hidden.
what should happen: the windows detect the icon location and open in the best location.

Set as Wallpaper doesn't work on Windows 10

Just started using your app and when trying to set a photo as wallpaper it just keeps loading and doesn't change the wallpaper.

If you need more details on the issue I can provide them.

Support topic selection?

It's great if user is able to select the wallpaper topic (eg. all, people, natural, cars...)

Doesn't update all desktops on macOS

Switched to 1.1.0 from old official app. The official app handled setting wallpaper of each desktop, but this version only seems to update the main desktop wallpaper.

macOS 10.14.6

Request for new build, version 1.2

A new feature was introduced in #7, which I'd love to use. Unfortunately there's no 1.2 release available yet. Would it be possible to generate another release for this? :)

v1.2 Set as Wallpaper doesn't work on Windows 10

I saw this issue mentioned before, but seems like it is still not working, using release 1.2, it just keeps loading.

Doesn't work on Fedora 36

Hi!
I tried to run on Fedora 36 and had no success.
I downloaded the .rpm and installed. The application icon shows on gnome launcher but when I click on it, nothing happens.
I tried to download the .appimage and same thing happens.

Is this a problem with Fedora? Can someone give me any help on this?

Thanks!