Make interesting wallpapers from the pictures you have. Configurable by monitor.
An evolving project that started many moons ago with this post
There was a version on googlecode for a while and other people have created gists on github from it.
This version is gone through some things, it used to also set the login screen on windows when you were able to do that but since Windows 10 that has been removed again.
I don't use most of the modes any more, I think in particular that strip mode right now might have a bug in sizing.
I know how to make this work on a Mac, but I don't have access to one to do the work - it should be easy enough.
It keeps a list of wallpapers in an sqlite db and tries to avoid reusing images for as long as possible, once it can't find any more images for a given directory it'll clean up the seen ones.
You can build an exe for it if you install the requirements from requirements_dev and run the build_exe.bat - This
makes it easy to use when you login or on a schedule.
You will need a config file - there's an example in examples this is the config I use - I added a monitor section to
show the monitor overrides.
There aren't many requirements - PIL and win32 for windows (wallpapers are more of a pain than you would think).
It will search the current working folder for a pywallpaper.json file or you can specify one with -c
usage: wallpaper.py [-h] [--image SINGLE_IMAGE] [--directory DIRECTORIES]
[--config CONFIG_FILE] [--working-dir CWD]
[--single_image SINGLE_IMAGE]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--image SINGLE_IMAGE, -i SINGLE_IMAGE
Set wallpaper to this image and exit (overrides -d)
--directory DIRECTORIES, -d DIRECTORIES
Add an image directory
--config CONFIG_FILE, -c CONFIG_FILE
path to alternate config file (default <working
dir>/pywallpaper.conf)
--working-dir CWD, -w CWD
Working Directory (default .)
--single_image SINGLE_IMAGE
single image to set as wallpaperThese are mostly ignored in favour of the json configuration
Every item can be defaulted in the global_config section and repeated with different settings in the monitors section
blending If true blends each new wallpaper to the previous
blend_ratio The amount of blending to use
crop Just chop off wallpapers that are too large
fill Expand wallpapers to fill the available space
gradient Generate a gradient (useful for blending to)
pre_rotate If true rotate images based on the aspect ratio of the space being filled
fill_mode There are different methods of filling the screen, swatch, spiral and strip
stop_threshold Once image dimensions become smaller than this, stop
spanning If true treat the entire screen space as a single monitor
single_folder_mode If true fill a space as much as possible from the chosen folder - otherwise choose images at random from anywhere
stack_mode If true blur the current background and layer the new wallpaper over the top by leaving gaps
directories List of directories to look for images - prefix path with a + to recurse all subdirectories
desktop_filters List of filters to apply to the desktop once rendered
image_filters List of filters to apply to each individual image
background_filters List of filters to apply to the background once blurred
monitors A section with overrides from above keyed by the monitor number starting at 1
TBD