Flying Desktop

It's a desktop in the cloud!

Functionality

Downloads photos from your personal Facebook and Google libraries and sets them as your wallpaper.

Purpose

This is a POC for combining asynchronous code of two types: asyncio and tkinter. The main "trick" is having a thread run the asyncio loop and the main thread running the tkinter loop.

Installation & Running

Direct Download

1. Download flydesk.exe executable from the releases page
2. Run the executable

With pip

pip install .
flydesk

With pyinstaller

In order to run the (experimental) pyinstaller build for Windows, run:

pip install .
python compile.py
dist\flydesk

Usage

1. Press "Connect"
2. Log in to Facebook and/or Google
3. Press "OK"
4. Press "Hit me"

Todo

• add periodic wallpaper switching
• add Linux binary packaging

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• Photo Screen Saver