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Shell and python scripts that set the desktop wallpaper to a word cloud of the most resource-hungry processes
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process-wallpaper
Python and shell scripts which set your wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most resource-intensive processes presently running.
Depenendencies
python3
-
gsettings
(comes preinstalled with GNOME),plasmashell
(comes with KDE) orfeh
(supported by many Linux distributions).
If
gsettings,
plasmashelland
fehare all not supported by your platform, you can still set
wallpaper.pngas your wallpaper manually.
Setup
- 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
Use
The wallpaper is updated every time
updateWallpaper.shis run. To trigger the update every minute, append the following line to
crontab -e, remember to replace
/path/to/script/directorywith the directory of your scripts.
KDE
* * * * * 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"
Most other
* * * * * cd /path/to/script/directory && ./updateWallpaper.sh > /tmp/wallpaper.log 2>&1