Lightweight GNOME shell extension to change your wallpaper every day to Microsoft Bing's wallpaper (the image you see when you visit Bing.com). It will also show a notification containing the title and the explanation of the image.
Disclaimer: this extension is unofficial and not affiliated with Bing or Microsoft in any way. Images are protected by copyright, and are licensed only for use as wallpapers.
This extension is based extensively on the NASA APOD extension by Elinvention and inspired by Bing Desktop WallpaperChanger by Utkarsh Gupta.
This is my first attempt at a GNOME extension, so it may have some issues.
- Fetches the Bing wallpaper of the day and sets as both lock screen (and now it's dialog also) and desktop wallpaper (these are both optional)
- Optionally force a specific region (i.e. what Bing calls a "market", some Wallpapers may relate to local holidays or locations)
- Automatically selects the highest resolution (and most appropriate wallpaper) in multiple monitor setups
- Optionally clean up Wallpaper directory after between 1 and 7 days (delete oldest first), or keep them forever
- Only attempts to download wallpapers when they have been updated
- Doesn't poll continuously - only once per day and on startup (a refresh is scheduled when Bing is due to update)
- Language support: English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Chinese (zh_CN), French (fr_FR), Portugeuse (pt, pt_BR), Russian (ru_RU), Spanish (es), Korean (ko, ko_KR, ko_KP), Indonesian (id) and Catalan (ca) - a HUGE thanks to the translators
- add more languages (#14) - please help if you can
- fix/test HTTP(S) proxy support (#22)
- In China, users are limited to 'Chinese – China', 'English - International' markets (this is the way Bing handles the Chinese market/locale, not an extension 'bug' - sorry)
- Bing may detect your location incorrectly (and force a locale as above) - if you see this, please let me know what Bing.com itself does
- Some users see a GNOME shell crash (this seems to be a GNOME bug though...) (#17) - this seems to fixed on current Gnome releases (3.28+)
- We are limited by the resolution of Bing's wallpapers, so no 4K options yet
Gnome 3.18+ (Ubuntu Gnome 16.04+, Fedora 23+)
Install from extensions.gnome.org
or install directly to your GNOME extensions directory (useful if you want to hack on it)
git clone https://github.com/neffo/bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension.git $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/BingWallpaper@ineffable-gmail.com
or create a zip file by doing this
git clone https://github.com/neffo/bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension.git
cd bing-wallpaper-gnome-extension
sh buildzip.sh
You can then install this file using the Gnome Tweak Tool. Please note to install an extension correctly the zip must have the metadata.json file in the base directory (not in a sub-directory), so you can't use the Git zip file to do this.
Heres a suitable zip file I prepared earlier.
