Cinnamon Dynamic Wallpaper

About the project

This extension switches the background image of your Cinnamon desktop multiple times in a day, based on a location or custom time periods. You can choose between included image-sets, your own HEIC-file or a source folder with single images. Configuration through a user-friendly configuration window.

Features

8 included image sets
10 day periods
HEIF converter
Image configuration assistent with simple one-click setup for image choices
Online location estimation or offline with manual latitude and longitude input
Time periods individual configured by user
Offline sun angles estimation
Image stretching over multiple displays or repeat image for every display
Show image on lock screen

Tested Cinnamon versions

5.4 (Mint 21)
5.6 (Mint 21.1)
5.8 (Mint 21.2)
6.0 (Mint 21.3)

Only supported with version 1.x

4.8 (Mint 20.1)
5.0 (Mint 20.2)
5.2 (Mint 20.3)

Technology

Using JavaScript for
- Location estimation
- Change of the desktop wallpapers
Python displays the preference window
Image Configurator UI was written with Glade

Installation

From Built-in Extension Manager

Open "Extensions" in Linux Mint or any other distribution with Cinnamon as Desktop Environment
Click on "Download"
Search and download it

From the repo

Download the Repository
Extract the files
Copy the folder cinnamon-dynamic-wallpaper@TobiZog to ~/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/

How to use it

Active the Extension via Cinnamon Extension Manager
Open the settings
Keep Estimate coordinates via network active or disable it and insert latitude and longitude in the fields
Choose a set of images or disable it and select for every daytime an image manually

Image Configurator

The Cinnamon Dynamic Wallpaper extension offers an integrated image configuration assistant. Here, you can choose an included image set or import a HEIC-file from your system. You have to choose the images for the time periods after the import.