sddm-bing-pod

Set Microsoft Bing picture of the day as background of sddm of lubuntu theme.

Installation

Root or sudo permission is needed to install this package.

sudo dpkg -i sddm-bing-pod_<version>-<revision>_all.deb

Configuration

Copy the settings file into this directory: /etc/sddm-bing-pod/ and personalize the setting by uncomment the desidered parameter.

Available configuration with example:

The mkt parameter determines which Bing market you would like to obtain your images from. Valid values are: en-US, zh-CN, ja-JP, en-AU, en-UK, de-DE, en-NZ, en-CA, it-IT.

Default value is determinated based on $LANG, if something not work try to set this setting.

mktValue=en-US

$saveDir is used to set the location where Bing pics of the day are stored. $HOME holds the path of the current user's home directory The images will be saved in $saveDir

saveDir='/usr/local/share/sddm-bing-pod'

The desired Bing picture resolution to download Valid options: "_1024x768" "_1280x720" "_1366x768" "_1920x1080"

picRes="_1920x1080"

Remove picture older than $picRemoveOld located into $saveDir Valid options: "-1": never remove, "1" remove 1 day old picture, "2" remove 2 day old picture and so on

picRemoveOld=7

Manual run:

sudo sddm-bing-pod

Run automaticcally at boot

The new installation script automatically enable sddm-bing-pod.service Note: Maybe the picture change after sddm init, so you see the new picture at next login

Uninstall

sudo apt-get remove sddm-bing-pod

Note: Maybe you have to adjust setting in /etc/sddm.conf

CHANGELOG

v2.0.0-1

• Redesigned the process. Now .deb package install a copy of sddm theme "lubuntu" that will be used to show downloaded Bing's picture-of-the-day with it's description (copyright) readed from a file and compose in qml (qt) inside a rectangle with text wrap. It's no more possible to disable the copyright feature, unless you manually copy the Main.qml file from lubuntu theme folder to the lubuntu-bing-pod theme folder inside /usr/share/sddm/themes/