Changes the desktop background using random pictures in a folder

README - Desktop Wallpaper Changer

This script creates a variety of different montage like backgrounds for Mac using random pictures from your machine.  I personally place this in in the root of either the Originals folder in iPhoto or in the Photobooth folder and let it go nuts.

You need the following for this to work:

1 - Ruby 1.8.7 or higher
2 - ImageMagick installed (use Macports)
3 - These files: http://cl.ly/240a2a264b0b155a3764

To get it to work, place create_wallpaper.rb and montage.png in the ROOT of whatever folder has your images.  It will recurse subdirectories.  

Then just run "ruby create_wallpaper.rb"

WHY DID I CREATE THIS?
I have 13,000 pictures on my computer, most of which I never see, so I wrote this to see them. I run it as a cron job every 20 minutes to update the pic (warning - ImageMagick sometimes hangs when you do this)

WILL IT WORK WITH AN EXTERNAL MONITOR
Yes!  Just do ruby create_wallpaper.rb 2 to specify the second monitor.

THEY'RE STARING AT ME, MAKE THEM STOP!
You can type "ruby create_wallpaper.rb black" to go black for your wallpaper.

Twitter me @jlippiner if you have questions.


(c) 2010 Joshua Lippiner