Python script to fetch the newest edition of a comic strip and use it in swaylock. Highly inspired by xkcd-lock by @angs.
This script gets the latest strip of a comic which is added on top of a pixelated screenshot of your desktop. This image is then used as a background image when running swaylock.
Comics supported:
- Calvin & Hobbes
- CommitStrip
- Dilbert
- Dinosaur Comics
- Fagprat (no)
- Get Fuzzy
- Lunch (no)
- PvP
- xkcd
Easy peasy: pip install swaylockcomics
Run swaylockcomics to lock your screen with swaylock and show a random comic strip. You can also chose a specific comic and use a pixellation distort on your lockscreen instead of the blurring. Check out swaylockcomics -h for more info.
If you use multiple displays, the script will only place the comic strip on your primary screen.
If the script can't fetch a comic because of connection issues, it will use a previous strip from the same comic, if it can find one in the strips-folder.
If there is no net and no cached comic strip available, the script will use XKCD's password-strip as default.
(This seems to be OK according to Mr. xkcd himself:
"Can we print xkcd in our magazine/newspaper/other publication?"
"You can post xkcd in your blog (whether ad-supported or not) with no need to get my permission."
But Randall, if I'm mistaken, please let me know.)
When using xkcd, it will also get the alt-text for the image and paste it underneath the comic.
These dependencies are required besides the modules installed by pip:
- swaylock
- maim
- curl (called by the subprocess module)