InpsrWall

Acquire backgrounds from Reddit. Should work cross platform. In the future there will be an option to draw the BrainyQuote quote of the day on the background.

Background setting is done using Desktop.py from WeatherDesk. Should also be XDG complient.

Features

• Should be cross-platform. Report bugs!
• Scrape multiple subreddits
• Maintains an offline cache of previous backgrounds
• [UNRELEASED] draw inspirational quotes on your background (coming soon!)

Setup

Linux

Edit InsprWall.ini as necesary and move it to a directory called InsprWall in your XDG config directory (usually ~/.config). Run InsprWall.py from the same directory as Desktop.py.

Windows

TODO

Mac

TODO

TODO

Help

Error: Failed to set wallpaper. (Desktop not supported)

Export the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP or DESKTOP_SESSION environment variables with your apropriate desktop session. See Desktop.py for more.

Other

InsprWall makes use of the following open source software:

• Python by Guido van Rossum (Python Software Foundation License, Version 2 (Python-2.0))
• DiskCache by Grant Jenks (Apache License, Version 2.0)
• screeninfo by Marcin Kurczewski (MIT License)
• requests by Kenneth Reitz (Apache License, Version 2.0)
• WeatherDesk by Bharadwaj Raju (GNU General Public License v3.0)