awesome-wallpaper

Automatically change wallpaper by crontab-like schedule syntax.

Install

go get github.com/nguyenvanduocit/awesome-wallpaper

Arguments

Arguments	Default	Type	Description
--schedule	* * * * *	String	Optional. Crontab-like syntax schedule
--keywords	(empty)	String	Optional. Keywords to search, separated by commas
--conf	(empty)	String	Optional. Path to config file
--service	(empty)	String	Optional. Service action: install, start, stop, remove, status

Example

Set random wallpaper at every 30th minute:

awesome-wallpaper

Set random wallpaper at 7:00 AM every day:

awesome-wallpaper --schedule="0 7 * * *"

With keywords:

awesome-wallpaper --schedule="0 7 * * *" --keyword=cat,monster

or

awesome-wallpaper --keyword=cat,monster

Config file

With config file, you can config more than one schedule, for example:

[
  {
    "description": "Display cat for morning",
    "schedule": "* 6-9 * * *",
    "keywords": "cat"
  },
  {
    "description": "Display foods for noon",
    "schedule": "* 10-11 * * *",
    "keywords": "food"
  },
  {
    "description": "Display tech stuff on afternoon",
    "schedule": "* 12-15 * * *",
    "keywords": "tech"
  },
  {
    "description": "Display family on the evening",
    "schedule": "* 16-20 * * *",
    "keywords": "family,kid,home"
  },
  {
    "description": "Display galaxy for night",
    "schedule": "* 21-23 * * *",
    "keywords": "galaxy,universe,night"
  }
]

Then run

awesome-wallpaper --config=config.json

Run as a service

Install service:

awesome-wallpaper --config="./config.json" --service="install"

Start service:

awesome-wallpaper --service="start"

Stop service:

awesome-wallpaper --service="stop"

Remove service:

awesome-wallpaper --service="remove"

Crontab syntax

Here are the few quick references about crontab simple but powerful syntax.

*     *     *     *     *        

^     ^     ^     ^     ^
|     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     +----- day of week (0-6) (Sunday=0)
|     |     |     +------- month (1-12)
|     |     +--------- day of month (1-31)
|     +----------- hour (0-23)
+------------- min (0-59)

Examples

• * * * * * run on every minute
• 10 * * * * run at 0:10, 1:10 etc
• 10 15 * * * run at 15:10 every day
• * * 1 * * run on every minute on 1st day of month
• 0 0 1 1 * Happy new year schedule
• 0 0 * * 1 Run at midnight on every Monday

Lists

• * 10,15,19 * * * run at 10:00, 15:00 and 19:00
• 1-15 * * * * run at 1, 2, 3...15 minute of each hour
• 0 0-5,10 * * * run on every hour from 0-5 and in 10 oclock

Steps

• */2 * * * * run every two minutes
• 10 */3 * * * run every 3 hours on 10th min
• 0 12 */2 * * run at noon on every two days
• 1-59/2 * * * * run every two minutes, but on odd minutes