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gnome-shell-extension-bing-wallpaper-changer

Description

Sync your wallpaper to today's Microsoft Bing image of the day (the image you see when you visit Bing.com).

Sync your wallpaper to today's Microsoft Bing image of the day (the image you see when you visit Bing.com).

Disclaimer: this extension is unofficial and not affiliated with Bing or Microsoft in any way. Images are protected by copyright and are licensed only for use as wallpapers.

Features:

  • UHD resolution wallpapers
  • Automatically fetches current Bing wallpaper of the day and sets as both lock screen and desktop wallpaper (user selectable on GNOME versions that support it)
  • Doesn't poll continuously - only once per day and on startup (schedules a refresh when Bing is due to update)
  • random mode (from previously downloaded wallpapers) *NEW: select/cycle wallpaper through previously downloaded images
  • Language support: English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Chinese (zh_CN, zh_TW), French (fr), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Russian (ru_RU), Spanish (es), Korean (ko), Indonesian (id), Catalan (ca), Norwegian Bokmål (nb) & Nynorsk (ni), Swedish (sv), Arabic (ar), Hungarian (hu) and Japanese (ja) - a HUGE thanks to the translators

This extension was forked from the NASA APOD extension by Elinvention (https://github.com/Elinvention) and inspired by Bing Desktop Wallpaper Changer by Utkarsh Gupta (https://github.com/UtkarshGpta).

Always restart GNOME after manually updating extensions. Please report bugs to the GitHub page below:

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