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Bing Image of the day (lemmygrad.ml)

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Do you guys know any way to have bing daily images set automatically as wallpaper on your system ?

I am currently using this gnome extension and it works fine. But I am looking for something more desktop agnostic . I have searched trough a lot of websites , but all scripts seem to be not developed anymore...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I mean, it's not entirely trivial, but you could probably script this yourself:

wget the image to some path that gets overwritten each time the script gets run.
Set the wallpaper to that, e.g. with feh.

And then schedule that script to be run daily, for example with anacron (which unlike cron will do that task later, if it couldn't be run at the scheduled time, because your system was off/suspended).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

You might not even need something like feh if you just have wget place the images in a folder the computers wallpaper slideshow function points to.

Also see below for some points on getting started.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10639914/is-there-a-way-to-get-bings-photo-of-the-day

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/insanepoet/cf4074d7aa1a455ff5b0437497f8dd14/raw/bde27f46046533f7ee9be750330a94c334f95535/bingphoto.sh