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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2024 8:33 pm Post subject: Background Rotation for Gnome (Python, in development)

I have created a python script for changing my desktop background at regular intervals (5 minutes). I am currently working on working out some bugs and trying to add new features. Any help/suggestions/praise or <sarcasm>anonymous boxes of scorpions delivered to my doorstep </sarcasm> will be appreciated and welcome!

A basic install of python 2.4 or 2.5 will run this script and it may work for earlier versions (not tested).

Currently the script only works for gnome, but i plan on adding detection of and ability to change the images for other GUi's too (KDE, xfce)

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
# Created by: Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
# Contact at: Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn (at) gmail (dot) com
#
# Created on: 2024.06.14
# Last edited: 2024.06.23
#
# This program is free software: You can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version three
# of the License or (at your option) any later version
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU Public License for more details.
#
# You should have recieved a copy of the GNU General Public
# License along with this program. If not, see
# < http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ >

#TODO - Add ability to cache images and include multiple source directories
#TODO - add support for KDE too and autodetect which one is running.

# We need some imports.
# Let us move around the system and stuff
import os

# Let us collect file names and stuff
import glob

# Let us pick an image at random
import random

# Allow Sleep
import time

# Sleep time in seconds: 300 = 5 minutes
SLEEP_TIME = 300

# List file types that are valid for display.
FILE_TYPES=['*.jpg','*.JPG','*.jpeg','*.JPEG','*.gif','*.GIF','*.png','*.PNG','*.svg','*.SVG']

# Set up the file location to pull images from. Try users custom backgrounds
# first but fall back on system backgrounds if not found
IMAGE_LOCATION=os.getenv("HOME")+"/.backgrounds"
if not os.path.isdir(IMAGE_LOCATION):
IMAGE_LOCATION="/usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds"

# Move to the selected location.
os.chdir(IMAGE_LOCATION)

# Gather images
#TODO - Allow multiple source directories
IMAGES=[]
for type in FILE_TYPES:
IMAGES[0:0]=glob.glob(type)

#FIXME - Images with special characters in filename. i.e: |\/*![](); Fix with correct escape sequences
while True:
# Pick an image at random
CHOICE=random.randrange(0,len(IMAGES))

# Set the gnome background
os.system("gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename \""+IMAGE_LOCATION+"/"+IMAGES[CHOICE]+"\"")
os.system("gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options \"wallpaper\"")

time.sleep (SLEEP_TIME)

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