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AlfredoSequeida / venus

Venus aims to be a cross-platform tool to automatically change your desktop wallpaper to something random using images from Unsplash.
MIT License
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Windows 10 #3

Closed CaseyKnauss closed 6 years ago

CaseyKnauss commented 6 years ago

I did a little testing on windows 10. First thing I had to do was copy over the os_tools into the sitepackages directory after pip install.

After running venus it successfully removed the background but didn't set a new one. Hope that info helps working towards windows 10 usage.

AlfredoSequeida commented 6 years ago

@CaseyKnauss Hi! Thank you, I am running into the same issue. But it is a strange bug that I need to do more research on. It seems that SystemParametersInfoW is having trouble finding the image if the file is generated by the get_wall() function, but not if it's hardcoded by a string (which is the same string value). Maybe it's the encoding of the string.

AlfredoSequeida commented 6 years ago

With the newest release, Venus now sets the wallpaper correctly. However, the pip install still needs to be fixed. I will work on that next. If anyone wants to have a go at fixing the windows installation so that we don't need to manually copy os_tools to the sitepackages directory, please feel free to do so.

AlfredoSequeida commented 6 years ago

The windows install has been fixed with the latest release 0.1.0