wcd 0.0.0a3

A daemon which manages your desktop wallpapers. Sort of the 'mpd' of wallpapers.

Wallpaper Changing Daemon (wcd)

Wallpaper Changing Daemon reminds me of mpd, but it manages wallpapers instead of music.

Overview

• It comes with wcc too, which is a CLI client app, used to interact with the Daemon.
• It works on python 3.9 (and, probably, on 3.7 and 3.8 too, not sure about lower versions though).
• It only depends on PyYAML and coloredlogs, but you don't have to worry about installing them manually, pip's got you covered.
• It copies it's default config file into ~/.config/wcd/, or to wherever you point it to, via $WCD_CFG.
• I only code as a hobby, but I'd say I made a good job to make this very readable and, thus, feel very welcomed to check how things are implemented, to get a better understanding of what this program does, its capabilities, etc...
• You need to have a program which will do the wallpaper switching (such as xwallpaper, feh or nitrogen) installed on your machine.

Installation

1. Install the package: either pip install wcd or clone this repo and run setup.py
2. Run the package once, to generate config files. If you wan't, you can point to where you want your config to be stored in by exporting an evironment variable named WCD_CFG, like this:
   • export WCD_CFG="path/to/config" # be sure to add this line to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc or whatever shell you use
   • python -m wcd
3. Load the config file (defaults to ~/.config/wcd/cfg.yml) on your text editor and change the wallpaper_cmd entry to whatever suits you best.
4. Kill the previous running instance if you haven't already and, then, restart the program.
5. You're all set, enjoy.

Installing and Running as systemd Service

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/brunofauth/wcd.git
2. cd into it: cd wcd
3. Copy the unit file to your systemd config folder: cp wcd.service ~/.config/systemd/user/wcd.service
4. To enable starting wcd on login, run: systemctl enable --user wcd.service
5. To immediatly start wcd, run: systemctl start --user wcd.service

Communicating with the wcd

python -m wcd.wcc --help

sxhkd keybindings for wcc (append to your sxhkdrc)

shift + XF86Audio{Play,Next,Prev}
    python -m wcd.wcc {toggle_cycle,next,prev}