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Shell and python scripts for setting your desktop wallpaper to a ~live word cloud of your most resource-hungry processes

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process-wallpaper

Python and shell scripts which set your wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most resource-intensive processes presently running.

Depenendencies

  • python3
  • gsettings (comes preinstalled with GNOME), plasmashell (comes with KDE) or feh (supported by many Linux distributions).

If gsettings, plasmashell and feh are all not supported by your platform, you can still set wallpaper.png as your wallpaper manually.

Setup

  • Clone this repo.
git clone https://github.com/anirudhajith/process-wallpaper.git
cd process-wallpaper
  • Set the resolution of your display in config.json
  • Install Python dependencies.
pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user
  • Run setup.sh
./setup.sh

Use

The wallpaper is updated every time updateWallpaper.sh is run. To trigger the update every minute, append the following line to crontab -e, remember to replace /path/to/script/directory with the directory of your scripts.

KDE

* * * * * export "binpath=/path/to/script/directory"; "DISPLAY=:$(ls -1 /tmp/.X11-unix/X* | grep -oE "[0-9]*$" | sort -n | head -1)"; export "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bus"; (pushd "${binpath}" && ./updateWallpaper.sh && ./setWallpaper.sh; popd) 2>&1 | logger -t "process-wallpaper"

Most other

* * * * * cd /path/to/script/directory && ./updateWallpaper.sh > /tmp/wallpaper.log 2>&1

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