WALLPAPER4LINUX

This application uses PixaBay api for downloading images and use these downloaded images as desktop home screen wallpaper.

Pre-requisite -

• To use this application user need to have a PixaBay account.
• Generate access token from your account and keep it noted somewhere. To know about, how to generate access token please watch this video by Video Pizzazz.
• Required python version for this app is python=3.8

Installation -

• Create application home directory -

  $ mkdir $HOME/.wallapaper4linux

• Create a vitual environtment to run this application

  $ python3.8 -m venv $HOME/.wallapaper4linux/envPy

• Activate virtual environent -

  $ source $HOME/.wallapaper4linux/envPy/bin/activate

• Download wheel file from this URL

• Execute below command to install application -

  $ pip install wallpaper4linux-1.0b0-py3-none-any.whl

• After this application is installed, you need to add your PixaBay access-token (generated above) in bashrc file.

  • Open .bashrc file -

    $ vim ~/.bashrc

  • Add below line at the end of bashrc file -

    export PX_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your-access-token-key>

  • Save and close the file and execute below command -

    $ bash

• Now application is installed successfully.

• To Setup application follow below steps -

  • Create service file

    $ cd /lib/systemd/system
    $ sudo vim wallpaper4linux.service

  • Put the content as shown below in created wallpaper4linux.service file -

    [Unit]
    Description=Linux Wallpaper application
    After=multi-user.target
    After=network-online.target
    Wants=network-online.target
    
    [Service]
    Type=simple
    ExecStart=<user-home-path>/.wallpaper4linux/envPy/bin/w4l-app-start
    Restart=always
    User=<your-user-name>
    Group=<your-user-name>
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

  • Finally Save and close the file. Now that we have created our service, we need to activate it, for that execute the following command in sequence.

    $ sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/wallpaper4linux.service
    $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    $ sudo systemctl enable wallpaper4linux.service
    $ sudo systemctl start wallpaper4linux.service

  • To ensure that our service starts only after newtork is properly up, please execute below commands -

    $ sudo systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
    $ sudo systemctl start systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

• This completes the installation and setup of Wallpaper4Linux application.

• Now, you will be able to enjoy new desktop every-day.

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