joajfreitas / nasa-wallpaper

Change your desktop background with a NASA image

nasa-wallpaper

Change your desktop background with a NASA image. You can set an image from the APOD (Astronomical Picture of the Day), the NASA Image Library or the NASA's account in Unsplash.

The supported desktops are:

• Windows
• macOS
• GNOME
• KDE
• Cinnamon
• Unity
• Budgie
• XFCE
• LXDE
• MATE
• Deepin
• Most Wayland compositors (set only, requires swaybg)
• i3 (set only, requires feh)

Install

Just download the executable that fits your OS and architecture from the Releases section, open a terminal and run it.

If you are a Arch Linux user, you can download and install it from the AUR.

Build

You need to have Rust installed, version 2021 or above. As soon as you have it, run cargo build and check in the target folder.

Getting started

Set the APOD image as wallpaper: nasa-wallpaper -a

Set the APOD image of the 27th March 1999: nasa-wallpaper -a -d 1999-03-27

Set a random image from the NASA Image Library: nasa-wallpaper -n

Set a random image with the earth keyword: nasa-wallpaper -n -q earth

Read the help: nasa-wallpaper --help or nasa-wallpaper -h

You can read the complete reference on the Wiki