Emulate macOS Mojave's dynamic wallpaper

What you get

Why

Yeah, since the first time I looked at Mojave's dynamic wallpaper I fell in love with them.

That's why I've done a pretty simple script to use their images on a Linux environment. As I'm using i3wm with feh, the default command used to set the wallpaper, but you may change it in order to work with Gnome, KDE, or whatever you wish.

This script also supports Windows.

Requirements

Python 3, and some Python packages you can find in requirements.txt: install them with pip:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

How to

First of all, download the source Mojave images (I'm not going to upload them in this repository in order to avoid copyright problems) from the internet.

Clone/download this repository to get the set_wallpaper.py and install the requirements.

Extract the images in a folder, i.e. ~/Images/Wallpapers.

$ python set_wallpaper.py Rome ~/Images/Wallpapers

You can find a list of valid city names here.

Configuration

$ python set_wallpaper.py -h

usage: set_wallpaper.py [-h] [-r RATE] [-t TEMP] [-i DUSK_ID] [-c COMMAND]
                        city folder

Live wallpaper based on Sun position, emulating Mac OS Mojave "dynamic
wallpaper".

positional arguments:
  city                  Timezone city to be used when calculating sunset time
                        (i.e. Rome) see
                        https://astral.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#cities for a
                        list of valid names.
  folder                Folder containing the different wallpapers.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r RATE, --rate RATE  Refresh rate in minutes (default 10).
  -t TEMP, --temp TEMP  Temp image file (default /tmp/wallpaper.png).
  -i DUSK_ID, --dusk-id DUSK_ID
                        Image number of the "dusk" image (default to 13 for
                        the 16-images Apple set).
  -c COMMAND, --command COMMAND
                        Command to be executed for setting the wallpaper, use
                        "{}" as a placeholder for the image (default: "feh
                        --bg-scale {}").

Examples for different DE

If you use a different Desktop Environment and want to add the command to this list just fill an issue or send a PR!

Default (feh and Windows)

$ python set_wallpaper.py Rome ~/Images/Wallpapers

Gnome

$ python set_wallpaper.py Rome ~/Images/Wallpapers -c "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri {}"

Plasma / KDE 5

I didn't find a good way to do it for now. Sorry.

Contributing

Issues and PRs are welcome. Go ahead!

0x4141414141 / dyn-wallpaper