2.7 KiB
Paperchanger
Introduction
Paperchanger
is a program aimed to assist one using the xwallpaper
tool.
Hence xwallpaper provides no comprehensive way of changing the wallpaper through a graphical selector, paperchanger is there to fix this flaw. Of course paperchanger offers fuctionality to change the wallpaper by passing a path to a file, just like you would with xwallpaper.
Additionally, paperchanger gives you the option of specifying a default directory where all your wallpapers are stored. This is nice, as it provides an easier workflow for changing wallpapers.
It is important to know that paperchanger is using the --zoom
flag provided by xwallpaper internally, although this might be adjusted or extended at some point in the future.
Installation
Arch Based Systems
With an AUR Manager
If you are using an arch based system, you can install the paperchanger
package from the AUR (Arch User Repository).
(Not yet available!)
An AUR manager like yay
may be used for an easy installation:
$ yay -S paperchanger
Without an AUR manager
If you do not want to use an AUR manager, here is how to compile and install the package manually:
Download the PKGBUILD
file from this repository and move it to some folder.
Navigate into this folder using:
$ cd path-to-the-folder
Now use the makepkg
command to download the source files and compile the package:
$ makepkg
After you are done creating the package, you should have many files including a .pkg.tar.zst
archive.
This is your compressed ready to use paperchanger
package, which can now be installed using pacman.
$ sudo pacman -U path-to-your-archive
The folder and its contents used for the installation process may now be deleted.
Other Systems (PKGBUILD file is not used)
A dpkg-buildpackage
file might be added at some point, but for now the installation must be done manually.
Make sure git
is installed on your system.
First clone the source files from this git repository:
$ git clone https://git.kske.dev/DieGurke/paperchanger.git
Navigate into the folder using:
$ cd paperchanger/
Now copy the shell script into the /usr/bin/
folder on your system:
$ sudo cp paperchanger.sh /usr/bin/paperchanger
Now the README.md
and the LICENSE
files have to be copied to the appropriate folders on your system:
$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/doc/paperchanger
$ sudo cp README.md /usr/share/doc/paperchanger/README.md
$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/licenses/paperchanger
$ sudo cp LICENSE /usr/share/licenses/paperchanger/LICENSE
Paperchanger is now installed on your system, thus the folder you are in right now used for installation might be deleted.