A simple bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper. It shows charging animation and changes according to battery percentage.
Overview
- 21 different types of battery wallpapers/icons.
- Shows battery charging animation.
- Stop animation when the battery is fully charged.
- When not charging, the wallpaper/icon changes according to battery percentage.
- Users can add their own icons/styles/wallpapers.
- Tested on :
Window Managers: Works on all window managers (tested on all WMs Archcraft have)Wayland Compositors:sway,wayfire,river,newm,hyprlandDesktop Environments:KDE,Pantheon,Gnome,Deepin,Cinnamon,XFCE,LXDE,MATE,Zorin,Budgie
Dependencies
Install Following programs on your system before using bwall -
acpi: To get battery and charging datafeh: To set wallpapers on WMsxrandr: Only if you're using XFCE desktop
Install acpi, feh and xrandr -
# On Archlinux
$ sudo pacman -Sy acpi feh xorg-xrandr
# On Ubuntu or Debian
$ sudo apt-get install acpi feh x11-xserver-utilsFor swaywm support users must install oguri. The
oguridaemon must be started for the script to work.Ogurican be installed on Arch linux via AUR.
Installation
Follow the step below to install bwall on your system -
You can run
test.shto test it before installing it on your system.
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Clone this repository -
$ git clone https://github.com/adi1090x/battery-wallpaper.git -
Change to cloned directory and run
install.sh-$ cd battery-wallpaper $ chmod +x install.sh $ ./install.sh
Run the program
- Open the terminal and execute
bwall-$ bwall
┏┓ ┏━┓╺┳╸╺┳╸┏━╸┏━┓╻ ╻ ╻ ╻┏━┓╻ ╻ ┏━┓┏━┓┏━┓┏━╸┏━┓ ┣┻┓┣━┫ ┃ ┃ ┣╸ ┣┳┛┗┳┛ ┃╻┃┣━┫┃ ┃ ┣━┛┣━┫┣━┛┣╸ ┣┳┛ ┗━┛╹ ╹ ╹ ╹ ┗━╸╹┗╸ ╹ ┗┻┛╹ ╹┗━╸┗━╸╹ ╹ ╹╹ ┗━╸╹┗╸
Bwall V3.0 : Set desktop wallpaper according to battery percentage. Developed By : Aditya Shakya (@adi1090x)
Usage : bwall.sh [-h] [-d] delay [-s style]
Options: -h Show this help message -d num Set charging animation delay (default 0.8s) -s style Name of the wallpaper style to apply
Available styles: bar bonsai cartoon charge city city_alt colours cup_black cup_dark egg faded frame industrial leaves mechanical panel paper pixel_city slash space sweet
Examples: bwall.sh -s bonsai Set wallpaper from 'bonsai' style bwall.sh -d 1 -s bar Set wallpaper from 'bar' style with 1sec delay
+ Select the style you like and run -$ bwall -s bonsai [*] Using style : bonsai
### Previews
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`Bonsai`
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`Bar`
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`Cartoon`
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`Charge`
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`Colours`
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`Cup Black`
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`Cup Dark`
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`Egg`
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`Faded`
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`Frame`
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`Industrial`
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`Leaves`
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`Mechanical`
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`Panel`
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`Paper`
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`Slash`
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`Sweet`
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`Space`
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`Pixel City`
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`City`
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`City Alt`
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### Common Issues
1. **Wallpaper not changing** : If your wallpaper is not changing, then open an issue and show me the output of `echo $DESKTOP_SESSION`.
2. **Not working on XFCE** : If this script is not working on xfce, then open the terminal and run `xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -m` and change the wallpaper (any) via *xfce4-settings-manager*. <br />
In the terminal, *xfconf-query* will print lines starting with `set:`, which show which properties have been changed, check `screen` & `monitor` values and modify the script accordingly.
```bash
110 ## For XFCE
111 if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux"* ]]; then
112 SCREEN="0"
113 MONITOR="1"
114 fi
- Autostart : If you want to autostart the script with desktop, you can add it to your WM autostart file & if it doesn't work for you, you can create a
desktop filein$HOME/.config/autostartdir.$ cd $HOME/.config/autostart && touch bwall.desktop
Add this to bwall.desktop file
[Desktop Entry] Name=Battery Wallpaper Comment=Set desktop background according to battery percentage, with charging animation. Exec=/usr/bin/bwall -s leaves & Type=Application Icon=wallpaper Categories=Accessories;
### Quick FYI
+ In KDE, `bwall` changes the wallpaper in all the Activities.
+ You can add ***bwall -s style &*** to your wm autostart file to set it as wallpaper after login.
+ Have Fun!