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anirudhajith / process-wallpaper

Shell and python scripts for setting your desktop wallpaper to a ~live word cloud of your most resource-hungry processes
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The crontab command only creates a new wallpaper, does not set it as the wallpaper. #22

Closed shardul08 closed 5 years ago

shardul08 commented 5 years ago

The crontab executes the updateWallpaper script which only runs generateWallpaper which creates a new wallpaper. It is needed to run the setWallpaper script from updateWallpaper script after creating the new wallpaper. I have opened a pull request #17 with the required changes. Please review it.

anirudhajith commented 5 years ago

If setup.sh is run in the first time the user clones the repo, the wallpaper will be set to wallpaper.png since both updateWallpaper.sh and setWallpaper.sh are run. After that, unless the user manually changes their wallpaper to something else, any changes to wallpaper.png will reflect automatically on the desktop. That's the behavior I'm seeing on Ubuntu. Is an additional call to setWallpaper.sh proving necessary on your system? If so, we can add the required call to setWallpaper.sh.

shardul08 commented 5 years ago

I am sorry I didn't know how gsettings work. Just read about it and realized it automatically sets wallpaper.png as the wallpaper whenever there is any change in it. I thought we had to manually call setWallpaper.sh every time there is a change in wallpaper.png. Just tested in my system and it works fine. I will close PR #17.