🌠 bgswitch - Background Switcher

bgswitch is a lightweight tool for periodically changing your desktop background. It's written in Bash and is very simple, allowing anyone to understand every line of code and make it easy to modify.

🔗 Requirements

1. bash
2. feh [only if you running window mangaer like dwm, i3, etc]

Installation

~ $ git clone https://github.com/ad1w/bgswitch
~ $ cd bgswitch
~ $ bash install.sh

# to uninstall, run this command
~ $ bash install.sh -R

then add your image files into ~/.config/bgswitch/backgrounds

Usage

in major desktop env. like plasma, gnome or xfce, you only need relog from your session

if you running window manager, add this line to your autostart file:

bgswitch &

Configuration

~ $ nano ~/.config/bgswitch/config

TIME=60 # in second

highly recommend restart bgswitch before relog from your session to avoid any error

~ $ pkill bgswitch

✅ Tested

bgswitch already tested on

• plasma
• gnome
• gnome-classic
• xfce4
• dwm
• bspwm
• twm