Walland

Sets as wallpaper the picture of the day of different sources using different backends.

Supported backends are: hyprpaper, swaybg, swww, feh (X11).

The sources are:

• Bing
• Earth Science Picture of the Day
• NASA Earth Observatory
• NASA
• Unsplash
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

Installation

Method 1: Pipx

git clone https://github.com/Golim/walland
pipx install ./walland

Method 2: Manually

sudo cp ./walland.py /usr/bin/walland

Install the Python dependencies with:

pip install -r requirements.txt

curl_cffi because Unsplash is now fingerprinting python requests and returning 403. This library impersonates browser fingerprints to avoid this.

Backends

One of the following backends:

• Hyprpaper
• Swaybg
• Swww
• Feh

Options

usage: walland [-h] [-s SOURCE] [-b BACKEND] [-a BACKEND_ARGS] [-S] [-D]

Walland sets as wallpaper the picture of the day of different sources using different backends.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SOURCE, --source SOURCE
                        Source of the picture of the day. Default: random. Available sources: bing, unsplash, nasa, apod, earthobservatory, epod
  -b BACKEND, --backend BACKEND
                        Backend to use to set the wallpaper. Default: hyprpaper. Available backends: hyprpaper, swaybg, feh, swww
  -a BACKEND_ARGS, --backend-args BACKEND_ARGS
                        Additional arguments to pass to the backend.
  -S, --save            Save the picture of the day in the current directory.
  -D, --debug           Print debug information.

Screenshots

Image taken from Unsplash