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Automatically updates the Gnome desktop wallpaper to the latest GOES19 imagery
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README.md

Active GOES Wallpaper

Automatically updates the Gnome desktop wallpaper to the latest GOES19 imagery

Run Down

  • Automatically updates wallpaper every 5 mins
  • Uses a user-space Systemd timer
  • Creates & uses a Python virtual environment
  • Uses Requests to download the full-sized GOES image
  • Uses Pillow to format and scale the image for built-in wallpaper size
  • Adds a timestamp to wallpaper

Future Improvements

  • Add check to only update the wallpaper if GOES wallpaper is current wallpaper

Installation

make install

Service Status

systemctl --user status update_goes_wallpaper.service