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January 13, 2016 21:05
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I wanted to pull down the Spanish and English daily comic of Calvin and Hobbes from GoComics.com. This tiny script will pull down the GIF images, use ImageMagick to stack them, and then set the new graphic as the background wallpaper. I use gsettings for the Cinnamon DE for setting the background.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Script to pull comic and set as background each morning/login. | |
| GRABES=`curl -s http://www.gocomics.com/espanol/calvinandhobbesespanol | grep -oP "http://assets\.amuniversal[^\"]*\" width=\"600\"" | awk -F\" '{print $1}'` | |
| GRABEN=`curl -s http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes | grep -oP "http://assets\.amuniversal[^\"]*\" width=\"600\"" | awk -F\" '{print $1}'` | |
| wget -O /home/<USER>/Pictures/newComicBGes.gif $GRABES | |
| wget -O /home/<USER>/Pictures/newComicBGen.gif $GRABEN | |
| convert /home/<USER>/Pictures/newComicBGes.gif /home/<USER>/Pictures/newComicBGen.gif -append /home/<USER>/Pictures/newComicBG.gif | |
| gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background color-shading-type 'solid' && gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-opacity 100 && gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-options 'centered' && gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background primary-color '#000000' && gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background secondary-color '#000000' && gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///home/<USER>/Pictures/newComicBG.gif' |
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