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process-wallpaper

Name: process-wallpaper
Brand: process-wallpaper
SKU: //anirudhajith/process-wallpaper
Rating: 1.1768 (442 reviews)

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) or
```
feh
```
(supported by many Linux distributions).

gsettings

plasmashell

and

feh

are all not supported by your platform, you can still set

wallpaper.png

as 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.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.

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