oahong / linux-bing-wallpaper

set Bing Wallpaper of the Day as your Linux Desktop's wallpaper

Linux Bing Wallpaper Shell Scripts

It sets Bing.com wallpaper of the Day as your Linux Desktop

supports XFCE4, GNOME (2 and 3) and KDE4.

Usage

Download these two scripts.

Put them somewhere (~/bin for example)

Change mkt varible in bing_wallpaper.sh to your market (valid values are: en-US, zh-CN, ja-JP, en-AU, en-UK, de-DE, en-NZ, en-CA)

Give the scripts execution permissions.

Make them autostart. (Google is your friend)

So next time you boot your computer for the first time a day, it'll run once.

Next boots it will run too, but do nothing.

Easy commands

    cd ~
    mkdir bin
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marguerite/linux-bing-wallpaper/master/bing_wallpaper.sh -o bin/bing_wallpaper.sh
    # If you use KDE
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marguerite/linux-bing-wallpaper/master/kde4_set_wallpaper.sh -o bin/kde4_set_wallpaper.sh
    chmod +x bin/*.sh

    # Default behavior
    ./bin/bing_wallpaper.sh

    # First param is Market
    # Second param is true to exit immediately if you want to use a cron
    # (otherwise, script will sleep 24 hrs)
    ./bin/bing_wallpaper.sh en-US true

Example cron usage (crontab -e for your user)

# m h dom mon dow command
* * * * * ~/bin/bing_wallpaper.sh en-US true