change_background

A script to change your background and colorscheme on your wayland compositor

Note: I use sway, this has not been tested on other window managers

Prerequisites

This script depends on these programs:

• swww
• wallust
• imagemagick
• jq

Install them on Arch Linux via

pacman -S swww imagemagick jq

yay -S wallust or cargo install wallust

Installation

I recommend adding the script to your path. Personally, I do this as follows:

Script

1. mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/

2. then append this line to your .profile export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin/

3. ln -s ./change_background.sh ~/.local/bin/change_background

Config

1. cp .env.example .env
2. cp -r wallust/* ~/.config/wallust

Usage

simply call change_background to pick a random background

or if you have an image you want to set, call change_background ./wallpaper.png

add the following to your .sway/config file

exec swww-daemon
exec change_background

Customising

The script is extensive by default. I encourage you to change the defaults and customise your experience

Also make sure to add your own wallust templates to apply the new colorscheme to your terminal, waybar etc.

Contributions

Any contributions welcome!

I am a beginner in bash scripting and honestly had to look up how to do everything.

Upon finishing I asked Qwen Coder to check the code and give me feedback. (So its not vibe-coded, but vibe-checked I suppose ;) )