pokemon-a-day-wallpaper 0.2.0

Sets a daily Pokémon fan art wallpaper on Ubuntu GNOME

Pokémon-a-day Wallpaper

As a big fan of Bing Wallpaper, I wanted something similar for my GNOME desktop but feturing Pokémon fanart. So I built this tool to automatically set a new Pokémon wallpaper every day, sourced from the amazing community on Wallhaven.

Pokémon-a-day Wallpaper is a CLI tool that randomly selects a Pokémon (seeded by the date, so it's consistent throughout the day) and a high-quality fan art wallpaper (1920x1080 or higher) is fetched from Wallhaven and applied to your desktop. If you don't like the wallpaper, just run next to get a different one — it will still change automatically the following day.

Requirements

• GNOME desktop environment
• Python 3.10+
• Internet connection

Installation

pip install pokemon-a-day-wallpaper

Usage

Apply today's wallpaper immediately

pokemon-wallpaper run

Skip to a different wallpaper (same day)

Don't like today's pick? Get the next one:

pokemon-wallpaper next

You can run next as many times as you want throughout the day. The wallpaper will still automatically reset to a fresh Pokémon the following day.

Schedule daily automatic updates

Installs a systemd user timer that runs every day at 08:00:

pokemon-wallpaper install

After installing the timer, apply today's wallpaper right away:

pokemon-wallpaper run

Remove the automatic schedule

pokemon-wallpaper uninstall

Wallpaper storage

Downloaded wallpapers are cached at:

~/.local/share/pokemon-wallpaper/

License

MIT

Author

Marcos Filipe Capella - I'm a Software Engineer and Pokémon enthusiast. I created this project for my work laptop with the help of Claude Code and further refining it by myself.