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deicist

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Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 36

Random Astronomy picture of the day as wallpaper

This is is no way all my own work, I found the script to download today's APOD and show it as the Gnome background and altered it as follows:

a) fix it to work with gif images as well as jpgs.
b) add xfce4 compatibility
c) get a random image instead of todays image

I'm pretty new to bash scripting, so feel free to suggest improvements.

#!/bin/bash
#Filename: apodwallpaper
#Location: ${HOME}/.bin
#Purposes: Downloads NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day and displays it as the
#          GNOME background 
#Author(s): acvwJosh of Ubuntu Forums, modified by Colin Dean <http://cad.cx>
## Modified by deicist of ARCH linux forums:  added xfce4 support, added .gif support, added random support
## requires athena-jot package from AUR


##random stuff goes here
##start date is a cutoff year to get images after.  I use this because most pre-2000 images are too small to make good desktops
STARTDATE="2000";
NOW=$(date +%Y);
randYear=$(jot -r 1 $STARTDATE $NOW);
randMonth=$(jot -r 1 01 12);
randDay=$(jot -r 1 01 28);
getDate=$(date -d $randYear/$randMonth/$randDay +%y%m%d);

#change this if you want the image to be in a different directory
FILENAME=apodwallpaper
APODWALLPAPER=${HOME}/.${FILENAME}


#remove directory if it exists
rm -rf  ${APODWALLPAPER}
mkdir -p ${APODWALLPAPER} && cd ${APODWALLPAPER}

# download image from apod site
wget -A.gif -A.jpg -R.txt -r -l1 --no-parent -nH http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap$getDate.html

# move image from obscure folder to main folder, rename image
find ./apod -name "*.gif" -or -name "*.jpg" | while read line ; do
mv "$line" "${FILENAME}.jpg"
done

#######uncomment next 3 lines for gnome
#gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "blank.jpg"
#gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options "zoom"

######uncomment next line for xfce4 -primary display
#xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s ""
#xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-style -s 3

#uncomment next line for xfce4 -secondary display
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor1/image-path -s ""
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor1/image-path -s "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor1/image-style -s 3

# Uncomment ONE of the following for use with feh (thanks to SkonesMickLoud)
#feh --bg-tile "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#feh --bg-center "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#feh --bg-scale "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#feh --bg-seamless "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"

#get rid of cruft
rm -rf apod robots.txt

Last edited by deicist (2009-03-26 19:24:53)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Random Astronomy picture of the day as wallpaper

I'll close this thread, and move the other one here, as that has the discussion in it.