Python and shell scripts which set your wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most resource-intensive processes presently running.
python3
gsettings
(comes preinstalled with GNOME),plasmashell
(comes with KDE) orfeh
(supported by many Linux distributions).
If gsettings
, plasmashell
and feh
are all not supported by your platform, you can still set wallpaper.png
as your wallpaper manually.
- Clone this repo.
git clone https://github.com/anirudhajith/process-wallpaper.git
cd process-wallpaper
- Set the resolution of your display in
config.json
- Install Python dependencies.
pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user
- Run
setup.sh
./setup.sh
The wallpaper is updated every time updateWallpaper.sh
is run. To trigger the update every minute, append the following line to crontab -e
, remember to replace /path/to/script/directory
with the directory of your scripts.
* * * * * export "binpath=/path/to/script/directory"; "DISPLAY=:$(ls -1 /tmp/.X11-unix/X* | grep -oE "[0-9]*$" | sort -n | head -1)"; export "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bus"; (pushd "${binpath}" && ./updateWallpaper.sh && ./setWallpaper.sh; popd) 2>&1 | logger -t "process-wallpaper"
* * * * * cd /path/to/script/directory && ./updateWallpaper.sh > /tmp/wallpaper.log 2>&1