[ale] Linux Wallpaper and WebShots

[Christopher Bergeron]

Dow is right on the money with this one.  I would use wget -q -O 
/tmp/filename.jpg http://whatever.url/ (You might not be able to do 
webshots - try googling for "wallpaper of the day or something similar") 
and then just snarf that URL.  Then use mogrify to resize the image:  
mogrify -scale 800x600! /tmp/filename.jpg.  Throw it into a script and 
put it into your crontab.

Alternatively, you might want to check freshmeat.net for some already 
written apps that do the same thing.

-CB




Dow Hurst wrote:

> Can you just wget the shots and have them placed where the desktop 
> images are in your window manager?  Might take a cronjob running a 
> custom script to do it.
> Dow
>
>
> tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
>
>> I'm shifting my girlfriend from Windows to Linux and am a bit 
>> confused. She likes having various pictures from WebShots.com for her 
>> desktop wallpaper (and having them autochange), and WebShots is a 
>> Windows only organization.
>>
>> Off the top of their heads, does anybody on this list know how to 
>> snag pictures from WebShots, what conversion needs to be performed to 
>> get a linux usable image, and perhaps how to automate the process?? 
>> Or is this another advanced exercise for the reader (I haven't found 
>> a clue in a very quick google - so RTFM with a pointer to FM is 
>> really a valid effort.)
>>
>> Thanks for the input.
>>
>>  
>>
>


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