Description: description Downloads a random wallpaper from NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html to ~/wallpaper directory and set it to background.
Hi!
I have made the script executable with chmod +x name_of_script
If I force to launch it manually from gnome-schedule it works, wallpaper changes but if it launches automatically as a repetitive task without forcing manually, only wallpaper is downloaded to my ~/wallpapers folder but wallpaper doesn't change.
What's happenning?
Finally, it will be highly appreciated if text of the wallpaper appears hidden by default and the user could show/hide it by clicking in it, the same as windows version.
Thanks very much and good job!
thanks very much - very useful script. just wondered if there's anyway to include the text as well. apparently there's a windows program that does it (here: http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/). would be nice to be able to show the descriptions too...
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Hi! I have made the script executable with chmod +x name_of_script If I force to launch it manually from gnome-schedule it works, wallpaper changes but if it launches automatically as a repetitive task without forcing manually, only wallpaper is downloaded to my ~/wallpapers folder but wallpaper doesn't change. What's happenning? Finally, it will be highly appreciated if text of the wallpaper appears hidden by default and the user could show/hide it by clicking in it, the same as windows version. Thanks very much and good job!
im new in linux, can someone tell me how to install this? thanks!
download and extract it to anywhere, then allow execution of random-nasa-wallpaper.pl. Then run it. html2text and imagemagick should be installed.
thanks very much - very useful script. just wondered if there's anyway to include the text as well. apparently there's a windows program that does it (here: http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/). would be nice to be able to show the descriptions too...
Thanks, good idea. I implemented it with version 0.2.
I was planning to do this myself. Thank you for the very nice script!