Haven’t you always wanted Calvin & Hobbes stargazing at the daily NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for your wallpaper? I know I have. Now we can. In this tutorial I will show you how to set that up.
First, just double check you have these installed. I think most users will already.
sudo apt-get install imagemagick wget
Next, run the following code. It creates a directory to store the files we’re using in your home folder, and downloads the essential files.
cd ~/
mkdir CalvinAndHobbesWallpaper
cd CalvinAndHobbesWallpaper
wget http://i.imgur.com/IRi6k.png
wget http://www.mikesubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/hobbes.txt
Cool. Now, run this. It just tells you your screen resolution. If you already know it, great! Skip to the next step.
xdpyinfo | grep ‘dimensions’
gedit ~/CalvinAndHobbesWallpaper/hobbes.txt
bash ~/CalvinAndHobbesWallpaper/hobbes.txt
You can run this every day to get the latest image, or schedule it with Cron.
Based on some great work from Reddit.
where can i found the wallpaper sir. i just finish running the code. I don't understand this "Edit the file called ‘hobbes.txt’" what should i put their.
I want to enlarge a photo and have it printed so that I can use it as wallpaper in my room, but I'm not sure of any places in the Denver, CO area that would do it for me. Help?
do you know any software or we can say that any picture file that contains all the pictures published by NASA as a collection means everything is in one place…..thanks…
Yeah go to the folder it's in and right click on the picture. Go to "set as wallpaper" and you should be good.
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