Splashr - unsplash image getter

Script that will download 15 images from unsplash collection.
This is a help script so we can automatically change background-image on desktop / login screen and i3lock.
The downloaded images will be converted to PNG so i3lock will work.
New images only be downloaded if tempfolders modified date is older then 2 days

Requirements

1. imagemagick ( to convert jpeg to png for i3lock)
2. feh

Folder structure

~/.splashr
├── bg     - JPEG images
├── i3lock - Converted to PNG
└── temp   - Download Folder

Get started

For lightdm or other loginmanager
Create folder and file

sudo mkdir /usr/share/images/login/
sudo chown username:username /usr/share/images/login/
touch /usr/share/images/login/login.jpeg

Set /usr/share/images/login/login.jpeg as background-image in config for your loginmanger.

Make script executable

chmod +x splashr.sh

Run script

~/path/to/splashr/splashr.sh

How to rotate images

Desktop

i3config, set random background image when session starts. ~/config/i3/config

exec --no-startup-id feh --bg-scale $(find $HOME/.splashr/bg -name "*.jpeg" | shuf -n1)

Create a cronjob to run splashr.sh. Background image will be change eachtime script runs. ( Every hour )

0 * * * *  /path/to/splashr/splashr.sh

i3lock

bindsym $mod+l exec i3lock -i $(find $HOME/.splashr/i3lock -name "*.png" | shuf -n1)

For lightdm or other loginmanager

/usr/share/images/login/login.jpeg will be updated if modified date is older then 1 day.