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Installation instructions

macOS

CLI

There are several ways to build APODesktop. The simplest is by running make

  1. simply run
$ make install

You can also build APODesktop with Xcode at your peril

$ xcodebuild -scheme APODesktop -project APODesktop.xcodeproj -configuration Release CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=./build

or

$ xcodebuild -target APODesktop -project APODesktop.xcodeproj -configuration Release CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=./build

Now your wallpaper will be automatically updated every morning at 10:00AM!

You can also manually update your wallpaper at any time by running apodesktop

Xcode

  1. Click run button
  2. Profit???

Windows

  1. Open Developer Powershell (Powershell with msbuild)
  2. run
$ sl windows\APODesktop
$ msbuild .
$ .\scheduleApodDaily.ps1
  1. Profit?

Uninstallation

  1. Open Task Scheduler
  2. On the left-hand sidebar click "Task Scheduler Library"
  3. Right-click "APOD-Update Wallpaper daily"
  4. Click "delete"

GNU+Linux

  1. simply run
$ cd gnu+X+linux/
$ make install
  1. Profit?

Uninstallation

  1. simply run
$ cd gnu+X+linux/
$ make uninstall
  1. Unprofit?

TODO

  • detect when the user plugs in a new monitor and update the wallpaper

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