Cinnamon Dynamic Wallpaper

About the project

Based on a location, this extension calculates the periods of a day and switches the background image of your Cinnamon desktop. The extension offers the choice between a set of included wallpapers or to select a HEIC-file.

Features

• 6 included image sets
• 9 day periods
• HEIF converter
• Image configuration assistent with simple one-click setup for image choose
• Online location estimation
• Offline sun angles estimation

Tested Cinnamon versions

• 5.6

Installation

From the repo

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

From Built-in Extension Manager

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

How to use it

1. Active the Extension via Cinnamon Extension Manager
2. Open the settings
3. Keep Estimate coordinates via network active or disable it and insert latitude and longitude in the fields
4. 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.

Included image sets

The image sets are from https://github.com/adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper

Aurora	Beach	Bitday

Lakeside	Mountains	Sahara