jialrs / bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

Bash Script for download and set Bing Daily Wallpaper on all monitors for macOS

Bash Script for download and set current Bing Daily Wallpaper automatically on all (or selected) monitors for macOS

How it works?

Script downloads current Bing Daily Wallpaper to ~/Pictures/bing-wallpapers/ and sets it as wallpaper on all your monitors.

Set wallpaper (dekstop picture) automatically every day

Using launchd (recommended way)

1. Copy com.bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

2. Copy bing-wallpaper.sh to ~/bing-wallpaper.sh

3. Run launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor.plist in terminal (it can ask for permitions for the first time)

Tip: use com.bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor-uhd.plistfor UHD 4K images Tip: provide parameter -m <monitor number> to bing-wallpaper.sh in appropriate .plist file to set wallpaper only on certain monitor

How it works?

Script bing-wallpaper.sh is run every 30 minutes and checks if there is a new image on Bing.com. New image is downloaded and set as desktop picture on your all monitors.

Optionally you can edit com.bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor.plist file to run script in different interval or schedule runs on specific time of day. (run launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor.plist edit plist file and again load it)

For More info about launchd see https://www.launchd.info/ Configuration section.

Set current Bing.com wallpaper manually

with npm

(How install use script without npm see Usage (without npm) below)

1. First install Node.js https://nodejs.org/en/

2. For getting current Bing Daily Wallpaper to your desktop run in terminal:

npx bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

OR

npm -g install bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

then run in terminal

bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

3. For automatic setup of wallpaper every day contine with instructions below

without npm

Run ./bing-wallpaper.sh terminal for a single download of current Bing image.

Download wallpaper in UHD resolution

Add -r UHD parameter after bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor or ./bing-wallpaper.sh command:

bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor -r UHD

OR

./bing-wallpaper.sh -r UHD

Daily download of wallpaper using cron

You need to edit crontab in order to run script periodically.

In terminal

export EDITOR=nano && crontab -e

copy and paste crontab script:

MAILTO=""
# min hour mday month wday command
*/30 * * * * bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

Press control + x then y and enter

This will run script every 30 minutes (but download new image only when it change).