如何每天自动更改我的桌面背景？

Question

I am interested in having my desktop background automatically change every day. Perhaps taking the "picture of the day" from some website.

Is this something I could do with a Python script? I can code pretty well but I only really do numerical work, so I'm just looking for an overview of the process and then I can figure out the details.

I imagine it's fairly simple to have my script visit the website I'm interested in and to download the image. But then how do I engage with my (Linux) OS to tell it to set the image as background?

Thanks.

Answer 1

But then how do I engage with my (Linux) OS to tell it to set the image as background?

This might depend on what exactly system are using, but after quick search I found danilodellaquila.com article about doing that in Ubuntu . Check if any of two following commands do work after replacing path to some jpg image existing in your machine

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///path/to/wallpaper.jpg"

or

gconftool-2 --type=string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /path/to/wallpaper.jpg