Wallpaper command line utility

Features:

• Set a random wallpaper from a directory
• Set the bing image of the day wallpaper (4K resolution)
• Enhance any wallpaper with the watch word of today
• Downloads current watchwords of the year if not present
• Scales image to fixed width and keeps aspect ratio
• Position, fontsize, urls, etc. can be configured via config file
• Config file will be generated, if not present

Usage

1. Download latest version from releases.
2. Unpack archieve and execute go-wallpaper[.exe] executable
3. Adjust the default configuration file
4. (Optional) Create a shortcut for your OS startup mechanism

Example command line parameters

To override the config file behaviour you can execute the executable with the following commandline arguments:

# Print help
go-wallpaper --help

# Print the current version of the executable
go-wallpaper version

# Force using the directory from the config file as image source
go-wallpaper dir

# Force using the directory from the config file as image source
go-wallpaper bing

# Add this parameter with the previous commands to optionally enable printing the watchwords on top of the wallpaper 
--watchwords

# e.g.
go-wallpaper dir --watchwords

Example config files:

Example 1:

Take wallpapers from a directory

{
  "watchWords": {
    "x": 1500,
    "y": 1000,
    "fontSize": 50,
    "fontPath": "fonts/Sketch.ttf",
    "isActive": true
  },
  "bingFeed": {
    "feedUrl": "https://peapix.com/bing/feed?country=de",
    "isActive": false
  },
  "imageDirectory": {
    "isActive": true,
    "path": "C:/tools/wp/images"
  },
  "desktop": {
    "maxWidth": 2560
  }
}

Example 2:

Take wallpapers from online service - bing image of the day

{
  "watchWords": {
    "x": 1500,
    "y": 1000,
    "fontSize": 50,
    "fontPath": "fonts/Sketch.ttf",
    "isActive": true
  },
  "bingFeed": {
    "feedUrl": "https://peapix.com/bing/feed?country=de",
    "isActive": true
  },
  "imageDirectory": {
    "isActive": false,
    "path": "C:/tools/wp/images"
  },
  "desktop": {
    "maxWidth": 2560
  }
}

For Developers

Build

In cmd/wp directory run:

go build .

Run

In cmd/wp directory run:

go run .

Github Release with GoReleaser

GoReleaser is used to generate releases for different OS and architectures in github releases.

GoReleaser is triggered on every git-tag that starts with v*, e.g. v1.0.0.

Useful information

Project inspiration: https://github.com/PeterIttner/BingWallpaper

Links

• https://www.losungen.de/digital/daten
• https://bing.gifposter.com/
• https://peapix.com/bing/feed?country=de 4K Image API