live-wallpaper

High-Resolution Live Wallpapers

Supported Sources

• foto-webcam.eu mostly Germany, Switzerland and Austria

• Defaults

  • WEBCAM=simonyhuette
    • Go to foto-webcam.eu for a list of webcams (webcam-name is in the URL)
  • SWWW_TRANSITION=none
    • check swww img --help | grep env: for supported variables
  • $XDG_PICTURES_DIR/wallpapers or $HOME/Pictures/wallpapers
  • "/run/user/$UID/live-wallpaper-latest.jpg"

Goals

• Be resource friendly with service-providers
• Provide recent wallpapers

Dependencies

• Bash
• curl
• procps: pgrep
• gnugrep
• swww
• swayidle
• findutils
• swaymsg
• coreutils shuf

Dev

• shfmt -w live-wallpaper
• shellcheck live-wallpaper

Setup Guides

swaywm

In your "${XDG_CONFIG:-${HOME}/.config}/sway/config" add something like this

# Background image daemon
exec swww-daemon
# Wrap in systemd user service for easier process management
exec_always systemd-run --property "Wants=graphical-session.target" \
              --property "BindsTo=graphical-session.target" --slice="$SWAY_SLICE" \
              --property Restart=on-failure -u live-wallpaper \
              --user -E "PATH" live-wallpaper || \
                systemctl --user restart live-wallpaper
# Pause updating wallpapers on idle
exec swayidle -w timeout 1800 "systemctl --user kill -s STOP live-wallpaper.service" \
     resume "systemctl --user kill -s CONT live-wallpaper.service"