Custom BingWallpaper for Ubuntu

This script changes the background of Ubuntu with BingWallpaper everyday. Right now it can be used with cronjob or systemd service.

Table of Contents

• Crontab
• Systemd Service

Crontab

Uses crontab to create a cronjob and run a script every day.

See contrab list with crontab -l

And edit crontab list with crontab -e

Include the cronjob in the list. To define the time you can provide concrete values for minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon), and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any'). You can check crontab.guru to practice cron time.

m h dom mon dow /path/to/script.sh

e.g. 0 8 * * * /bin/sh ~/Documents/BingWallpaper/BingWallpaper.sh

Start the cronjob service

sudo /etc/init.d/cron start

Stop the cronjob service

sudo /etc/init.d/cron stop

Restart the cronjob service

sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart

Service

Create a service and use built-in ubuntu services.

Create a file called /etc/systemd/system/custombingwallpaper.service

[Unit]
Description=Custom BingWallpaper service
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=user
ExecStart=/path/to/script.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Set your actual username after User=
• Set the proper path to your script in ExecStart=

Start the service

systemctl start custombingwallpaper

Start service on boot

systemctl enable custombingwallpaper