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Remote Desktop Background Sync

A script for gnome users to sync their desktop background image with a remote url.

Use it for:

  • Any image with a URL that changes over time....
  • Any of the images from the amazing lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net (please donate to shoxrocks, he does awesome work)
  • Yahoo weather images for your area etc

Usage

OPTIONS:
   -h      Show this message
   -u      Url to get (mandatory)
   -r      Rotate image (degrees clockwise)

Personally i have my recent Tag Cloud from lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net updating via cron every couple of hours, as i listen to last.fm all day every day it makes for an interesting background.

(Don't forget to chmod +x it)
0 */2 * * * dougle bash "$HOME/.scripts/last_wallpaper/sync_last_wallpaper.sh" -r 90 -u "http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net/tools/user/tagcloud/Dougle_/overall/lower_thumb.png"

Every two hours it goes and grabs my latest image, if it is sucessfull it rotates it ninety degrees and then sets it as my desktop, easy.

Preview

Add me: last.fm/user/Dougle_

Contributing

All comments and bug reports are welcome, this script will be kept up-to-date and improved with my new features as and when i stumble across them. Forks and pull requests are also welcome. If any KDE users want to make a KDE version go ahead.