Weather aware desktop background images
Izulu is a script that fetches the current weather from Yahoo and changes the desktop background accordingly.
It can also show the weather forecast and the current temperature. As much as possible is detected automatically, like the command to change the background or the current position.
On launchpad, there is a PPA with daily builds. Add it with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:onli/izulu
and install izulu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install izulu
Download this repository and install with:
make
sudo make install # (or use checkinstall)
Install the dependencies (on Ubuntu):
sudo apt-get install imagemagick xmlstarlet xml-twig-tools
On older Ubuntu systems, install also notify-send. It is not strictly necessary, only if --osd is specified to show notifications on weather change.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/onli/izulu/master/PKGBUILD #download "PKGBUILD" file
makepkg
sudo pacman -U izulu-git-0.6.4.298a22d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
Install from AUR repo:
yaourt -S izulu-git
To use all common features, start izulu like this:
izulu --daemon --night --preview --temperature --osd &
izulu can configured partly in ~/.izulu/config, especially the CITY and WOEID parameter are important if the automatic location detection fails.
First, try to set CITY to the current location. If that fails, get the WOEID from http://woeid.rosselliot.co.nz/ and set it in the config.
For a list of all parameters see the manpage.
To overwrite images locally, check their name in /usr/share/izulu and add a image with the same name to ~/.izulu/. It is also possible to further distinct between weather states
(like rain/light_rain) instead of using the general category image by placing the more specific image into ~/.izulu/ as well. It should be best to directly look into the script (in chooseWallpaper()) to see the available categories.