Dynamic-Wallpaper for TealinuxOS

Bash approach to dynamic wallpaper for tealinuxos and other XFCE4 based os like xubuntu. dynamic-wallpaper can get data from api that used to sync corresponding sun and moon time to image.

Dependency

• curl sudo apt install curl
• jq sudo apt install jq
• libgtk3 sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev
• pkg-config sudo apt install pkg-config
• cmake sudo apt install cmake

summary sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl jq libgtk-3-dev pkg-config cmake

you might need to install basic compiler too sudo apt install build-essential

Installation

• Clone this repo or download zip
• Use default installer sudo ./install.sh

Configuration

• You can change wallpaper by editing dynamic-wallpaper.sh wallpaper path at wppath=
• Wallpaper MUST consist of 16 images that correspond to dawn, sunrise, noon, sunset, dusk, nightfall, and midnight. dynamic-wallpaper supports jpg, jpeg, png

Using dynamic-wallpaper

• After successful installation and proper reboot, you need to enable dynamic-wallpaper.
• Go to menu, look for Dynamic Wallpaper and click the Enable button. the effect might take few seconds.
• To disable dynamic-wallpaper, go to menu > Dynamic Wallpaper and click the Disable button.
• After disabling dynamic-wallpaper, nothing will happend. Change your wallpaper manually!
• By default, dynamic-wallpaper set location city to Semarang and country ID you can change by going to menu > Dynamic Wallpaper > Config.
• Set city by A city name. Example: London and country A country name or 2 character alpha ISO 3166 code. Examples: GB or United Kindom check ISO 3166

Using MacOS dynamic wallpaper

• Download MacOS dynamic wallpaper example.heic file
• Install libheif sudo apt install libheif-examples
• Check if valid heif-info example.heic and make sure it contain 16 images!
• Convert to jpg heif-convert example.heic example.jpg
• Set your wallpaper path to wppath= at dynamic-wallpaper.sh

Working principle

• Dynamic-wallpaper get time data from api, then time converted to minutes. this become seed
• Dynamic-wallpaper adjust image based on seed.
• Example :

SEED	START	STOP	FILE	DESCR
262	04:12	04:22	wp16
339	04:22	05:39	wp01	Dawn
410	05:39	06:50	wp02	Sunrise
481	06:50	08:01	wp03
552	08:01	09:12	wp04
623	09:12	10:23	wp05
696	10:23	11:36	wp06
736	11:36	12:16	wp07	Noon
776	12:16	12:56	wp08
816	12:56	13:36	wp09
856	13:36	14:16	wp10
897	14:16	14:57	wp11
1052	14:57	17:32	wp12	Sunset
1142	17:32	19:02	wp13	Dusk
1416	19:02	23:36	wp14	Nightfall
252	23:36	04:12	wp15	Midnight

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