This is a Python script that downloads the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, crops and resizes it to a size of your choosing, overlays the explanation text onto it, saves the result to a file, and sets the file as the desktop wallpaper.
For example, for the image of 6 September 2019:
See the [tool.poetry.dependencies] section in pyproject.toml. If you have
poetry installed (recommended!), simply run:
poetry install --no-root
This creates a virtualenv with just the right dependencies. To run the script inside that virtualenv, use:
poetry run apodwp.py
The --set option requires feh, used as a background setter.
Run ./apodwp.py --help to see the available options.
I'm using something like this in my ~/.xprofile to refresh my wallpaper every
time I log in:
~/apodwp/apodwp --output_file ~/.apod.png --set