bingdaily

Download the daily Bing wallpaper

Synopsis

$ bingdaily [OPTION]...

Description

This script downloads the current daily wallpaper offered by Bing.

Options

• -p path

  Change the download folder. The default download folder is set to the current working directory.

• -m market

  Select the Bing market:

  • en-US
  • zh-CN
  • ja-JP
  • en-AU
  • en-UK
  • de-DE (default)
  • en-NZ
  • en-CA

• -d day

  Select the day of the Bing wallpaper:

  • 0 = today (default)
  • 1 = yesterday
  • 2 = etc.

• -r resolution

  Select the desired image resolution in pixels:

  • UHD (default)
  • 1920x1280
  • 1920x1080
  • 1366x768
  • 1280x720
  • 1024x768
  • 800x600

• -s size

  Set the font size of the wallpaper title added as annotation to the bottom of the wallpaper. The default is 0 to not include any description. This feature requires ImageMagick version 6.3.2 or later. The value size can be set to one of the following:

  • Positive values larger than 1 are interpreted as absolute integers in pixels.
  • Positive values smaller than 1 are applied as scaling factor to the image height of the Bing wallpaper.
  • Positive values with a trailing percentage sign are applied to the image height of the Bing wallpaper.

• -y

  Overwrite existing image files

• -h

  Show this help message

Exit codes

• 0 All operations successful
• 1 Invalid configuration
• 2 Failed to fetch meta information of Bing wallpaper
• 3 Failed to replace existing Bing wallpaper
• 4 Failed to download Bing wallpaper

Environment

In order to invoke the script after user login, create the file ~/.config/autostart/bingdaily.desktop with the following contents.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Daily Bing Wallpaper
Exec=sh -c "bingdaily -y"
Icon=wallpaper
Comment=Download Bing daily wallpaper
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

Make sure that bingdaily can be found using the PATH variable.

Refer to the bash script backslide to change the current desktop wallpaper after having downloaded the daily Bing wallpaper.

Installation

Clone the remote repository and change into the local repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/mboljen/bingdaily
$ cd bingdaily

Use the following command to install this software:

$ make
$ make install

The default PREFIX is set to /usr/local. In order to successfully complete the installation, you need to have write permissions for the installation location.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT