Twitter-Trend-Wallpaper

A python and shell script to set the wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most trending google searches.

This project is inspired from https://github.com/shardul08/Google-Trend-Wallpaper. You can check it out for the wordcloud of most resource hungry processes running in your system.

Dependencies

• python3
• gsettings or feh To set the generated wordcloud as the wallpaper
• xvfb To simulate a display and run everything in memory

Python dependencies

• wordcloud To generate the wordcloud
• PIL Python imaging library

Setup

• Run setup.sh with

./setup.sh

This will install all the required dependencies and set the wallpaper.

• Add twitter.json file with following entries consumerKey,consumerSecret,accessKey,accessSecret

Usage

Run ./updateWallpaper.sh to update the wallpaper to the wordcloud of the latest trends.

NOTE If the wallpaper is not set automatically, you can set wallpaper.png as the wallpaper manually.

If you want the wallpaper to refresh/update every hour, you can add a cron job to run the script every hour.

To add a cron job, run

crontab -e

append the following

0 * * * * cd path/to/script/directory && ./updateWallpaper.sh > /tmp/wallpaper.log > 2>&1

This will refresh the wallpaper every hour. You can customize this command to refresh the wallpaper as often you want.