photo_background

Simple script that downloads a random photo from Unsplash, and sets it as the desktop background.

I was loosely inspired by this Rust code; finding it hard to follow, I decided to rewrite it in Python.

Dependencies

pip install requests pillow

Usage

photo_background.py [-h] [subject]

• positional arguments:
  subject: The subject of the photograph

• optional arguments:
  -h, --help: show this help message and exit

Problems

Linux

• Only Gnome based distro's are supported.
• When using Python from Anaconda, you might run into the following notification:
  "GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications."
  If this occurs, settings are not saved, and the background will not be changed. There is an easy fix though:
  Add "export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/" to your .bashrc or .zshrc.