bgart (Background Art)

This is a script to pull a full list of items from wga.hu (DB of European fine arts and architecture, started back in 1996) and download a random piece of art. That image is set as a background in GNOME then.

Dependencies

You will obviously need Perl 5 installed. (Which is usually a default case for any Debian-based distro.)

Also, couple Perl modules are needed:

• Archive::Zip
• Text::CSV_XS

If you are not a Perl developer who uses CPAN on a regular basis, you probably want to install those modules via your GNU/Linux package manager. Like this:

sudo apt install libarchive-zip-perl libtext-csv-xs-perl

Installation

The most straightforward way is to download this repo source code and call bgart.pl from any folder.

You can also set everything in /home/user/.local/ folder, intended for user environment executables and libs.

To install:

make install

To uninstall:

make uninstall

You can also use this command to quickly set .local folder with this command:

make setlocal

However, this will export path for .local/bin for your current shell session only.

You will also probably want to make sure the folder is included in a path export command in your .bashrc, .profile, .zshrc or the one for whatever shell you use in order to export every time you start a new shell session.

For instance, my .zshrc file has this:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH