kde-wallpaper-cli 1.0.0

Set the wallpaper for KDE

kde-wallpaper-cli

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Set the wallpaper for KDE from the command-line.

Attribution

The approach used here was documented on stackoverflow and this blogpost by Yaltirakli, which uses the same motivation.

Motivation

It's so silly. It should be easy to set the wallpaper from the command-line. Also, I like to have as little of "my own" configuration as possible and instead push this into open source command-line tools so moving machines is useful.

Instead, the "accepted" way of doing this seems to be send a script to KDE's plasmashell to update the wallpaper for each desktop.

Alternatives and prior work

I tried superpaper but this did not work with pipx without manual tweaks.

Tools like feh can set wallpaper for other window managers.

Related tools

You might like to try my program mapillary-nearby which will find streetview style images around a given area.

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I also create a stream of tools that are related to carrying out my work.

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