A bash script to generate and apply different types of gradient & blured wallpapers.
- Generate a
solid colorwallpaper - Generate a
random bluredwallpaper - Generate linear, radial, bilinear(4 colored) & twisted
gradientwallpapers - Generate random, twisted or colored
plasmawallpapers - Allows you to pick colors or fetch colors from
.Xresourcesfile for wallpaper generation
imagemagickfehxcolorxrandr(only if you use it on xfce)
- Clone this repository...
cd $HOME git clone https://github.com/adi1090x/canvas.git cd canvas chmod +x canvas # you can copy this script in bin dir for easy use sudo cp canvas /usr/local/bin- Run the program and choose an option
$ ./canvas -h ┏━╸┏━┓┏┓╻╻ ╻┏━┓┏━┓ ┃ ┣━┫┃┗┫┃┏┛┣━┫┗━┓ ┗━╸╹ ╹╹ ╹┗┛ ╹ ╹┗━┛ Canvas V3.0 : The Wallpaper Generator. Developed By : Aditya Shakya (@adi1090x) Usage : canvas [-h] [-S wxh] [-B] [-s] [-l] [-r] [-t] [-b] [-p] [-n] [-a] [-R] Options: -h --help Show this help message & exit -S --size Size of the wallpaper (default is 1366x768) -B --blurred Generate a random blurred wallpaper -s --solid Generate a solid color wallpaper -l --linear Generate a linear gradient wallpaper -r --radial Generate a radial gradient wallpaper -t --twisted Generate a twisted gradient wallpaper -b --bilinear Generate a bilinear(4point) gradient wallpaper -p --plasma Generate a plasma wallpaper -n --no-preview Do not show preview when image is generated -a --autobg Automatically set as wallpaper (implies -n) -R --randomize Generate a random wallpaper Though you can pick colors, Here's a list of all supported color names.
1. Generate random blured wallpaper...
$ canvas -B Enter the blur strength (maximum 30): 12 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y | Blured 1 | Blured 2 |
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2. Generate a solid color wallpaper...
$ canvas -s Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): p Pick a color... Generating wallpaper with color: #BA68C8 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y $ canvas -s Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): e Enter the color name or hex (eg: teal, #EBCB8B): #A3BE8C Set as desktop background? (y/n): y $ canvas -s Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): x ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██01██ ██02██ ██03██ ██04██ ██05██ ██06██ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██07██ ██08██ ██09██ ██10██ ██11██ ██12██ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ ██████ Enter the color number (without zero): 1 Generating wallpaper with color: #BF616A Set as desktop background? (y/n): y | Solid - #BA68C8 | Solid - #A3BE8C |
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3. Generate a linear gradient wallpaper...
$ canvas -l Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): p Pick first color... Pick second color... Generating wallpaper with colors: #FB8784, #70D675 Enter the rotation angle (default is 0): 60 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y $ canvas -l Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): e Enter the colors name or hex (format: color1-color2): orange-purple Enter the rotation angle (default is 0): 90 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y | Linear Gradient 1 | Linear Gradient 2 |
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4. Generate a radial gradient wallpaper...
$ canvas -r Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): p Pick first color... Pick second color... Generating wallpaper with colors: #DA0B86, #200D74 Shape? [ 1.diagonal | 2.ellipse | 3.maximum | 4.minimum ] (1/2/3/4): 3 Enter the rotation angle (default is 0): 0 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y $ canvas -r Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): e Enter the colors name or hex (format: color1-color2): red-black Shape? [ 1.diagonal | 2.ellipse | 3.maximum | 4.minimum ] (1/2/3/4): 2 Enter the rotation angle (default is 0): 20 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y | Radial Gradient Max | Radial Gradient Ellipse |
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5. Generate a twisted gradient wallpaper...
$ canvas -t Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): p Pick first color... Pick second color... Generating wallpaper with colors: #EC7875, #61C766 Enter the twisting amount (maximum 500): 200 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y $ canvas -t Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): e Enter the colors name or hex (format: color1-color2): blue-pink Enter the twisting amount (maximum 500): 180 Set as desktop background? (y/n): y | Twisted Gradient 1 | Twisted Gradient 2 |
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6. Generate a bilinear gradient wallpaper...
$ canvas -b Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): p Pick first color... Pick second color... Pick third color... Pick fourth color... Generating wallpaper with colors: #FB8784, #70D675, #FFE744 & #51B4FF Smooth or Regular? (s/r): r Set as desktop background? (y/n): y $ canvas -b Pick Colors or Enter Colors or fetch from .Xresources file? (p/e/x): e Enter first color (eg: red, #EC7875): teal Enter second color (eg: green, #61C766): pink Enter third color (eg: yellow, #FDD835): purple Enter fourth color (eg: blue, #42A5F5): khaki Smooth or Regular? (s/r): s Please wait... Set as desktop background? (y/n): y | Bilinear 1 | Bilinear 2 |
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7. Generate a plasma wallpaper...
$ canvas -p Random, Twisted or Custom colors? (r/t/c): r Set as desktop background? (y/n): n $ canvas -p Random, Twisted or Custom colors? (r/t/c): t Set as desktop background? (y/n): n | Plasma Normal | Plasma Twisted |
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Wallpaper not changing : If your wallpaper is not changing, then open an issue and show me the output of
echo $DESKTOP_SESSION. -
Not working on XFCE : If this script is not working on xfce, then open the terminal and run
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -mand change the wallpaper (any) via xfce4-settings-manager.
In terminal, xfconf-query will print lines starting withset:, which show which properties have been changed, checkscreen&monitorvalues and modify the script accordingly.
105 ## For XFCE 106 if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux"* ]]; then 107 SCREEN="0" 108 MONITOR="1" 109 fi - In KDE, it changes the wallpaper in all the Activities.
- If you can improve it, you're welcome.
- Have Fun!