Random geometric wallpaper generator. The generator has different modes (currently 'circles', 'squares', 'stripes', 'triangles'), which produce different image styles. Visually appealing color palettes are retrieved from https://colourlovers.com.
libcairo2-dev(sudo apt-get install libcairo2-devon Ubuntu)
python3 -m venv .env
.env/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
.env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
.env/bin/pip install.
.env/bin/wallpapergen [--width VALUE] [--height VALUE] [--mode MODE]
[--palette PALETTE] FILE
positional arguments:
FILE Name of generated PNG image file
optional arguments:
--width VALUE Width of generated image
--height VALUE Height of generated image
--mode MODE Type of wallpaper to generate;
values: 'random', 'circles', 'squares', 'stripes', triangles';
default: 'random'
--palette PALETTE Color palette to use. Numerical palette id from
Colourlovers.com, or 'random'; default: 'random'
You may want to run the generator at regular intervals to constantly get new wallpapers. On a unix/linux system, this can achieved via a cronjob or the watch command line tool, e.g.
watch -n 600 ~/RW/.env/bin/wallpapergen --width 1920 --height 1080 --out ~/RW/wallpaper.png
This command assumes that you have cloned the repository to ~/RW, that your screen resolution in 1920x1080, and that you want to generate a wallpaper every 600 seconds. The resulting image ist stored in ~/RW/wallpaper.png which you can set as your desktop wallpaper. Any respectable desktop environment should reload the wallpaper as soon as the file changes.
