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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

wikipediafimg

Description: Get "Today's featured picture" from wikipedia and append the text going with the picture to the pic itself and set it as background.

http://pastebin.archlinux.org/427

Thought someone might find it useful It only supports gnome because that's what i'm using now, but adding support for "X" DE would take you 1 min

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KISS = "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: wikipediafimg

hmm, failed today fixed that now, hopefully it should not ahppen again:

http://pastebin.archlinux.org/454

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KISS = "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: wikipediafimg

and ofcourse they had to go and use an .svg...

well updated script to handle that and also to handle .jpeg(not .jpg..) and set the text more into the corners edit: also not set the wallpaper as scaled as we're already doing it with convert:
http://pastebin.archlinux.org/464

The cool thing is that i'm learning

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KISS = "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: wikipediafimg

just a small modification, if you like to log in&out multiple times a day Since now you won't get multiple .jpg.png.gif.svg.jpeg files in wpedia_bgs dir...

I should also probably mention that you need imagemagick and wget to make use of this program, aswell as a login manager or .xinitrc(just launch the script from there somewhere)

http://pastebin.archlinux.org/549

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KISS = "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: wikipediafimg

hmm, I beleive 1 post would've been just as good as the 4 posts you made, the "edit" button works wonders . Anyways nice job.