battery-wallpaper

Simple bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper. It's shows charging animation and changes according to battery percentage.

How to install

Follow the steps below (You can run test.sh to test it before installing it on your system) -

• Install acpi, xrandr(for xfce), feh or wallpaper

# On Archlinux
sudo pacman -Sy acpi xorg-xrandr feh

# On Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt-get install acpi x11-xserver-utils feh

# On MacOS
brew install wallpaper

• For swaywm support users must install oguri. The oguri daemon must be started for the script to work. Oguri can be installed on Arch linux via AUR.

• Clone this repository and...

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/adi1090x/battery-wallpaper.git
cd battery-wallpaper
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

• Run the program and choose an option

$ bwall

Battery Wallpaper V2.0
Set desktop background according to battery percentage, with charging animation.
Developed By - Aditya Shakya (@adi1090x)

usage: bwall [-s] style [-d] delay [-h]

-s  style     name of icon/bg style.
-d  delay     set charging animation delay (default 0.8s).
-h  help      show this usage/help message.

Styles Dir: /usr/share/battery-wallpaper/images

Available styles:  bonsai  cartoon  city  city_alt  colours  cup_black  cup_dark  egg
faded  industrial  mechanical  paper  pixel_city  slash  space  

Features

• 21 different types of battery wallpapers/icons.
• Shows battery charging animation.
• Stop animation when battery is fully charged.
• When not charging, icon changes according to battery percentage.
• Support dual or more batteries.
• User can add their own icons/styles/wallpapers.
• Tested on - WM: Openbox, i3wm, bspwm, awesomewm, Fluxbox, Fvwm, Swaywm & DE: KDE(neon), Pantheon, Gnome(ubuntu, pop_os), Deepin, Cinnamon, XFCE, LXDE, MATE.

Previews

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Bonsai

Charging	Full

Bar

Charging	Full

Cartoon

Charging	Full

Charge

Charging	Full

Colours

Charging	Full

Cup Black

Charging	Full

Cup Dark

Charging	Full

Egg

Charging	Full

Faded

Charging	Full

Frame

Charging	Full

Industrial

Charging	Full

Leaves

Charging	Full

Mechanical

Charging	Full

Panel

Charging	Full

Paper

Charging	Full

Slash

Charging	Full

Sweet

Charging	Full

Space

Charging	Full

Pixel City

Charging	Full

City

Charging	Full

City Alt

Charging	Full

Common Issues

1. Wallpaper not changing : If your wallpaper is not changing, then open an issue and show me the output of echo $DESKTOP_SESSION.

2. Not working on XFCE : If this script is not working on xfce, then open the terminal and run xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -m and change the wallpaper (any) via xfce4-settings-manager.
   In terminal, xfconf-query will print lines starting with set:, which show which properties have been changed, check screen & monitor values and modify the script accordingly.

73   ## For XFCE
74   if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux"* ]]; then
75   	 SCREEN="0"
76       MONITOR="1"
77   fi

3. Autostart : If you want to autostart the script with desktop, you can add it to your WM autostart file & if doesn't work for you, you can create a desktop file in $HOME/.config/autostart dir.

$ cd $HOME/.config/autostart && touch bwall.desktop

# Add this to dwall.desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Battery Wallpaper
Comment=Set desktop background according to battery percentage, with charging animation.
Exec=/usr/bin/bwall -s leaves &
Type=Application
Icon=wallpaper
Categories=Accessories;

Support This Project

FYI

• If you can improve it, you're welcome.
• You can add bwall -s style & to your wm autostart file to set it as wallpaper after login.
• Have Fun!