All 1 entries tagged <em>Gnome-Web-Photo</em>Mike Willisit's just this blag, y'know?https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikewillis/tag/gnome-web-photo/?atom=atomWarwick Blogs, University of Warwick(C) 2024 Mike Willis2024-03-29T07:51:10ZUniversity Advent Calender as your (though maybe not your) wallpaper. by Mike WillisMike Willishttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikewillis/entry/university_advent_calender/2009-12-03T08:44:38Z2009-12-03T08:44:38Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.warwick.ac.uk/adventcalendar/" title="Related external link: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/adventcalendar/">http://www.warwick.ac.uk/adventcalendar/</a></p>
<p>For no good reason other than because the idea got stuck in my head, a script (<a class="downloadLink application_octet_stream" href="/files/mikewillis/adventwallpaper">advent wallpaper script</a>) which grabs an image of the University advent calender, does some stuff to it, sets it as your wallpaper and then adds a launcher to the panel that when clicked shows what's 'behind' today's door with the icon for the corresponding door as it's icon. Assuming you use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME">GNOME</a> for your desktop environment that is. Which statistically speaking, you probably don't.</p>
<p>Example screengrab (to click is to make larger):<br />
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<p><a href="/images/mikewillis/2009/12/02/adventscreenshot.png" title="Uni Advent Calender as wallpaper"><img src="/images/mikewillis/2009/12/02/adventscreenshot.png?maxWidth=200" alt="Uni Advent Calender as wallpaper" border="0" /></a> </p>
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<p>Requires ImageMagick, gnome-web-photo, curl and Epiphany (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28web_browser%29">web browser</a> not the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28web_browser%29">holiday</a>). Call from a cron-job or login script of something to automatically update wallpaper should you feel the desire to do so.<br />
</p><p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.warwick.ac.uk/adventcalendar/" title="Related external link: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/adventcalendar/">http://www.warwick.ac.uk/adventcalendar/</a></p>
<p>For no good reason other than because the idea got stuck in my head, a script (<a class="downloadLink application_octet_stream" href="/files/mikewillis/adventwallpaper">advent wallpaper script</a>) which grabs an image of the University advent calender, does some stuff to it, sets it as your wallpaper and then adds a launcher to the panel that when clicked shows what's 'behind' today's door with the icon for the corresponding door as it's icon. Assuming you use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME">GNOME</a> for your desktop environment that is. Which statistically speaking, you probably don't.</p>
<p>Example screengrab (to click is to make larger):<br />
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<p><a href="/images/mikewillis/2009/12/02/adventscreenshot.png" title="Uni Advent Calender as wallpaper"><img src="/images/mikewillis/2009/12/02/adventscreenshot.png?maxWidth=200" alt="Uni Advent Calender as wallpaper" border="0" /></a> </p>
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<p>Requires ImageMagick, gnome-web-photo, curl and Epiphany (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28web_browser%29">web browser</a> not the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28web_browser%29">holiday</a>). Call from a cron-job or login script of something to automatically update wallpaper should you feel the desire to do so.<br />
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