With Paper Shaper you can:

- have random offline wallpaper from any JPG images stored in your offline gallery

- have random online wallpaper from any webcam in a user maintained and editable list

- have random wallpaper from either your stored offline gallery images OR an online webcam (Paper Shaper chooses)

- choose how often the wallpaper updates.

Use your operating system's normal process to set papershaper.jpg as wallpaper. It's that simple. Paper Shaper handles the swapping and selecting of various images.

For Linux only

Dependencies: python, lynx

Python 3 and Python 2 versions included

Paper Shaper has been tested in, and runs perfectly in, these environments:

- KDE 4 (Kubuntu 12.04 LTS)
- Gnome 2 (CentOS 6 / RHEL 6)
- MATE (Fedora 20, Ubuntu 18.04)

Features

  • Choose a random offline wallpaper from any JPG image stored in Paper Shaper's gallery!
  • Choose a random online wallpaper from any webcam in a user maintained editable list!
  • Choose random wallpaper from either an offline gallery image OR an online webcam (Paper Shaper decides)!
  • Choose how often the wallpaper updates!
  • Updated for Python 3, still includes Python 2 version.

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License

Public Domain

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Command-line, Console/Terminal, Non-interactive (Daemon)

Programming Language

Python

Related Categories

Python Desktop Environment Software, Python Wallpaper App

Registered

2014-03-15