❖Dynamic-wallpaper-wayland ❖

Inspired by adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper

Description

• Dynamic wallpaper for wayland and xorg
• Only 5 lines of code (wayland) and only 3 lines with Xorg
• Easily customizable (default: firewatch)

Dependencies

• git: To clone the repository
• cron : To set a scheduler

Note Choose what you use (wayland or xorg)
If you want to use xorg change the comments as seen below

• swaybg: To set wallpapers on wayland
• feh : To set wallpapers on xorg

Install cron swaybg

# On Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt-get install swaybg cron

# On Fedora
sudo dnf install swaybg cronie

# On Arch
sudo pacman -S swaybg cronie

# On Gentoo (I personaly use dcron)
doas emerge --ask swaybg dcron

# On Void (Install your favorite cron)
doas xbps-install -S swaybg <cron of your choice>

🔧 Installation

📎 Standard

Warning Some additional configuration maybe required

1. Clone the repository.

Note I personally create a folder in my home directory (called SystemFiles) and clone the repository there.

cd
mkdir SystemFiles
cd SystemFiles/
git clone https://github.com/MiniApollo/dynamic-wallpaper-wayland.git

2. Setup cron job.

Note In order to use this script you need to setup a cron job
1. First intall cron
2. After installing cron, enable and start the cron service

• Systemd users (most people linux mint, ubuntu, debian, arch, fedora etc.)

sudo systemctl enable cronie.service --now

• Openrc users https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron

Note Install what you like (I personaly use dcron)

doas rc-update add dcron default

• Runit users https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html#enabling-services

Note Install what you like

doas ln -s /etc/sv/<service-name> /var/service/

• Other init system users (I think you get the point)

3. Make a cron job.

Note you need to add the following enviroment variables

echo "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY | $DISPLAY | $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
## My output
wayland-1 | :0 | /run/user/1000

crontab -e
# Add this line replacing the values of env variable and style with yours
0 * * * * WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 DISPLAY=:0 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 $HOME/SystemFiles/dynamic-wallpaper-wayland/wallpaper.sh

Warning Don't forget to change $HOME/SystemFiles if you placed it somewhere else

4. Change script variables.

Note optional

• Open the wallpaper.sh file with your favorite text editor

## Change the DIR variable accordingly where you want to place it
DIR="$HOME/SystemFiles/dynamic-wallpaper-wayland/images/firewatch/"

• You can use it with Xorg just change the comments

## Xorg
## If you want to use xorg just uncomment the line bellow and comment the wayland lines above
feh --bg-fill $DIR$HOUR.png

📑 How to add own wallpapers

• Download a wallpaper set you like.
• Rename the wallpapers (must be jpg/png) to 0-23. If you don't have enough images, symlink them.
• Make directory to $HOME/SystemFiles/dynamic-wallpaper/images/
• Rename DIR variable to DIR="$HOME/SystemFiles/dynamic-wallpaper/images/yourWallpaperDirName

Uninstall

• Delete the folder where you git cloned it
• Run crontab -r to remove the hour scheduler

crontab -r

• Unistall dependencies(git, cron, swaybg, feh) if its not needed

Sources

• Dynamic-wallpaper: adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper
• Readme: Sigmanificient/dotfiles

Thanks for reading!