wallrus

Wallrus is a simple and blazing-fast wallpaper manager for linux.

It wraps around feh to provide a simple, fast, feature-rich and user-friendly experience.

Quick links:

• Features
• Demo
• Usage
• Examples
• Installation

Features

• Fetching wallpapers online.
• Supports multiple monitor.
• Automatically change wallpapers using cron expressions (wallpaper slideshow).
• Supports multiple modes [center, fill, scale, tile]
• Saving fetched wallpapers to a file.
• Aquiring currently applied wallpaper and saving it to a file.

Demo

Usage

$ wallrus --help
wallrus x.x.x
TheHamkerCat <[email protected]>
A simple wallpaper manager for X11

USAGE:
    wallrus <SUBCOMMAND>

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help       Print help information
    -V, --version    Print version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    help    Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    set     Set wallpaper by giving an image path or a query to search online.


$ wallrus set --help
Set wallpaper by giving an image path or a query to search online.

USAGE:
    wallrus set [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -c, --cron <cron>      Add current wallpaper command to crontab to change wallpaper
                           automatically. (Only works with --query)
    -h, --help             Print help information
    -m, --mode <mode>      The mode to set the wallpaper. [default: fill] [possible values: center,
                           fill, scale, tile]
    -p, --path <path>      Path to the wallpaper. Use $HOME instead of ~/
    -q, --query <query>    The query to search for. Pass `trending` for trending wallpapers
    -s, --save <save>      Save the newly fetched wallpaper in a new file. (Only works with --query)
    -x, --noxinerama       Disables Xinerama support, Making the wallpaper span across all monitors.

Examples

Set a local wallpaper

$ wallrus set --path=/path/to/wallpaper.jpg

Fetch & Set a wallpaper online

$ wallrus set --query=batman

Get trending ones instead

$ wallrus set --query=trending

Save wallpaper after setting

$ wallrus set --query=batman --save=a.png

Change wallpaper every hour

$ wallrus set --query=avengers --cron="0 * * * *"

Get current wallpaper and save it to a file

$ wallrus get --file=wall.png

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/TheHamkerCat/wallrus
$ cd wallrus
$ bash ./install.sh

make sure .cargo/bin/ is in $PATH