Chwall is a tiny automatic wallpaper changer.
Its name is the contraction of change wallpaper, which may be pronounced as a twisted version of cheval, which means horse in French.
This is free and open source software.
The software can retrieve pictures from:
- Local folders.
- Bing pictures of the day.
- National Geographic pictures of the day.
- NASA astronomical pictures of the day.
- deviantart RSS feeds.
- Unsplash random API (requires a free account to access their API).
- Reddit.
- Smashing Magazine monthly wallpaper collection.
Chwall is organized around 4 components:
- chwall-app
- chwall-icon
- chwall
- chwall-daemon
The chwall-app and chwall-icon are alternative graphical interface to the simple chwall command line client. These 3 programs are here to drive the chwall-daemon component, which is responsible to change the wallpaper at given interval of time.
Website: github.com/milouse/chwall
Support:
Developer: Étienne Deparis
License: WTFPL License
chwall is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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