updWallp

About

updWallp is a small bash based project which creates nondistracting (blured/dimmed and some other stuff) wallpapers for your linux computer out of your images/photos.

The basic idea is inspired by Muzei and LinMuzei.

How it works

updWallp offers 2 main operation modes.

In local-mode updWallp.sh is using a random image from a user-supplied local folder to generate a blured & dimmed copy of it and sets the new created image as wallpaper.

In remote-mode (aka Muzei mode) it picks the muzei-picture-of-the-day from the internet, generates a blured & dimmed version of it and sets the new created image as wallpaper.

The image-modification relies on ImageMagick and is user-adjustable. Out of the box all output images of updWallp are blured and dimmed, in addition they might be grayscaled or sepia or colorized differently. They might be scaled to a user-defined width as well.

If you feel comfortable hacking the script you can go crazy and add tons of other parameters ImageMagick offers.

A second bash script (updWallpShowOrg.sh) offers the option to temporary toggle the wallpaper back to the original (non-blured & dimmed) version of the current wallpaper for x seconds.

Example Outputs

The following source image

Using local mode (operationMode=1) and normal (imageModificationMode=0)

Using local mode (operationMode=1) and grayscale (imageModificationMode=1)

Using local mode (operationMode=1) and sepia (imageModificationMode=2)

Using in local mode (operationMode=1) and colorize (imageModificationMode=3)

Using local mode (operationMode=1) and level-colors (here: black and lightgreen) with (imageModificationMode=4)

Keep in mind that all parameters are changeable.

Requirements

• ImageMagick (needed in general)

• cURL (needed in remote-mode to download images)

• jq (needed in remote-mode to parse the muzei.json)

• notify-send (optional for desktop notifications)

How to get started in a few steps

Get files

Downloads the latest build from here.

Configuration (config.sh)

Define operationMode variable

You need to set the operation mode to either local (1) or remote (2)

Change

operationMode=""

to something like this (for local mode)

operationMode="1"

and in case of local mode you have to define the local image source folder as well

Change

localImageFolder=""

to something like this

localImageFolder="/full/path/to/your/local/image/folder"

Usage

updWallp.sh (Mainscript)

Execute:

./updWallp.sh

Output (depends on the operation mode):

or via cron

*/30 * * * * /path/to/updWallp/updWallp.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

updWallpShowOrg.sh (Togglescript)

Execute:

./updWallpShowOrg.sh

Output: