yadyn

A dynamic wallpaper manager, written in Ruby.

How to install & use

1. Download the .deb from the releases tab.
2. Install the .deb with sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/yadyn.deb.
3. Get or make a dynamic wallpaper
4. Add yadyn to cron to run every hour

cron

1. Start crontab -e, it lets you edit what cron does.
2. Append the following line. This line runs yadyn every hour at minute 0. Replace [theme] with the path to the yadyn.cfg of the theme you want.

0 * * * * /usr/bin/yadyn [theme] > ~/yadyn-cron.log

Making wallpapers

1. Gather 5 versions of your image.

one for midnight, another for morning, another for afternoon, another for evening, and another for night.

2. Name them in this naming scheme: image_%.png - % is the stage of the day.

0 = midnight, 1 = morning, 2 = afternoon, 3 = evening, 4 = night.

3. Create a yadyn.cfg file. This is an example yadyn.cfg.

# Configuration file for yadyn.

[bg]
# the image format for the names. % is replaced with the stage of day
# 0 = midnight, 1 = morning, 2 = afternoon, 3 = evening, 4 = night.
format=/path/to/wallpaper/folder/image_%.png

[stage]
# which hour will be the stage of day
midnight=00
morning=06
afternoon=13
evening=18
night=21

Change it as you please.