nico2che/macosx-bing-wallpaper

macOS Bing's wallpaper

Get bing's image of the day on your desktop and travel easily through the world all days

Optionnal dependencies setup

If you want a caption on your wallpaper to know more about it, you need the imagemagick lib on your Mac.

You can install imagemagick with Homebrew

brew install imagemagick

OR you can install imagemagick with the official way

Setup script

cd ~/Pictures
git clone https://github.com/nico2che/macosx-bing-wallpaper.git wallpaper
cd wallpaper
chmod +x ./update.sh
./update.sh -n

Or one liner:

cd ~/Pictures && git clone https://github.com/nico2che/macosx-bing-wallpaper.git wallpaper && cd wallpaper && chmod +x ./update.sh && ./update.sh -n

Setup wallpaper

cmd + space -> Desktop & Screen saver -> + in bottom left sidebar and select the new ~/Pictures/wallpaper folder,
then click on the only one wallpaper

Setup automation

In order to change your wallpaper all days, let's write a cron job which verify all hours

crontab -e

where you can write

0 * * * * cd ~/Pictures/wallpaper && ~/Pictures/wallpaper/update.sh [options]

Update tool

cd ~/Pictures/wallpaper && git pull

Soon automatic update

Options

-l --language	    Set language code (eg. en-GB, fr-FR ...)
		    This option changes the hour of new bing image, and the
		    caption language
-c --caption 	    Write description on the image
-n --no-refresh	    Do not refresh Dock (so, wallpaper) after downloaded it
--force		    Force update image, even if already updated same day

TODO

• Automating update
• Caption options:
  • position
  • size
  • bg-opacity
  • text color
  • padding
• Native item on menu bar:
  • another way to see caption, and license
  • link to the bing request to know more
  • navigate to old day pictures
  • lock current picture ?..
• ...

License

The content of this project itself is licensed under the WTFPL.