Dynamic_Walls

Alpha See Changelog

Experimental script to replicate MacOS Mojave's dynamic wallpapers feature

Uses Sunrise-Sunset api to get the sunrise and sunset times of current location received by the LocateMe command line tool

LocateMe is a Public Domain command-line tool that lets you find your location (latitude, longitude, etc) using Apple's geolocation services.

The wallpapers were extracted from the HEIC file from the Mojave beta

A cron job is set up to ensure the script runs at intervals to be able to change the wallpaper

Set Up

1. Download and extract the zip containing all the wallpaper files extract it directly or copy the extracted folder to the directory /Users/<Username>/Pictures/Wallpapers create the Wallpapers directory if it doesn't exist, confirm that the pictures are in the mojave_dynamic directory

2. Download the github repo as zip and place all enclosed files in the above Wallpapers directory

just for reference the Wallpapers folder in the end should look something like this

3. Last we need to set up a cron job

Start the terminal and the use nano to edit the job list like so

env EDITOR=nano crontab -e

Then write

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/osascript ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Dynamic_Walls.scpt

and press control + o and then enter/return to write to the file and then control + x to exit out of nano and we're done, the wallpaper should get changed after a few minutes

The 5 stands for 5 minutes after which the script re-runs, one can change it to a custom interval if they wish

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Advantage of this is with minor tweaking we can use custom wallpapers too which Apple being Apple won't give us the option to.

will be working on making it so that even the minor tweaking is not needed for customisability

P.S: one can also use a software like GeekTool instead of setting up a cron job in 3^rd step

P.P.S To remove simply open the job list with nano like in third step and erase the line and save

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Changelog

1.7-alpha

Added auto switching OS Appearance to Dark according to time. Thanks @katernet

Added multi-monitor support. Thanks @eclair4151

1.6-alpha

Removed version name from file name to make updates easier

Some fixes for 24 hour clock setting

Important : One time set up change for old users, open nano as in step 3 and change the line to as seen now in third step and save and close as before