I’ve been looking for a way to break my routine a bit when I’m working on my laptop. I figured that changing the wallpaper randomly and automatically was a good way to break the monotony.
I use awesomeWM (version 4)
[f00b@void ~]$ awesome --version
awesome v4.3 (Too long)
• Compiled against Lua 5.3.5 (running with Lua 5.3)
• D-Bus support: ✔
• execinfo support: ✘
• xcb-randr version: 1.6
• LGI version: 0.9.2
So I needed three things:
- A folder full of images
- A little script that will choose one at random
- A call to this script from awesome init
For the images, I use the excellent repo by Luck Smith.
As far as the script is concerned, nothing too hard:
#!/bin/bash
# author : lebarondecharlus
# descr : Make your wallpaper change on each start !
#
# I'm using Luck Smith wallpaper git repo for all images
# link : https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/wallpapers
# current awesome theme
THEME="powerarrow-dark"
# Awesome conf path
AWPATH="$HOME/.config/awesome/themes/$THEME"
# image should have absolute path to image folder
IMAGE=$(find $HOME/Pictures/wallpapers/ -type f -name "*.png" -o -name "*.jpeg" -o -name "*.jpg"| shuf -n 1 | sed 's/\ /\\ /g')
cp -f $IMAGE $AWPATH/wall.png
# don't forget to add those lines at the end of your rc.lua (replace with your correct path and script name)
#
# -- Startup programs
# awful.util.spawn_with_shell("~/bin/wallpaper.sh")
As indicated in comment, just add these two lines (or just one without the comment) to call the script via awesomeWM init.
Put this at the end of ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua.
-- Startup programs
awful.util.spawn_with_shell("~/bin/wallpaper.sh")
On each awesomewm restart, you will have a new pretty (or not) wallpaper.