Idea - set wallpapers that change with time throughout the day about awesome-copycats

[russelg]

You could just make a cron script, that changes your wallpaper with feh
or something, that runs every 4 hours or whatever. I don't think you
need to try do it in Lua.

[sonph]

Yeah I've thought of that. But it'd be nice to make it into a theme so everyone can use it though.

[lcpz]

This is a library functionality, not a specific config.

You could use lain.widgets.base with feh and setting a timeout of 14400 (4 hours in seconds). See if you like this:

gwallwidget = lain.widgets.base({
    timeout = 14400, 
    cmd = "feh command" -- set properly
})

You don't need to add it to a bar.

Otherwise, if you wish to do all in your rc.lua, you could exploit run_once function by adding the following lines after "Autostart applications" section:

-- {{{ Loop applications
gwall = capi.timer({ timeout = 14400 })
gwall:connect_signal("timeout", run_once("my feh command")) -- set properly
gwall:start()
-- }}}

which is basically the standard use of signals in Awesome.

[lcpz]

This is something one could do at various levels, and very easily (for instance, you could also start a simple loop script in .xinitrc).

Since I've shown you how to achieve it through lain and awesome-copycats, I close this issue here.