Ansible Role: Wallpapers

Ansible role for rotating Gnome desktop background images with a scheduled cron job.

It creates a ~/wallpapers directory by default and randomly rotates the background with images from this directory with a cron job. See the variables section below for options.

Requirements

Requires gsettings, find, shuf and xargs on the managed machine. If not present they will be installed automatically.

Role Variables

The role variables are defined in defaults/main.yml with these defaults:

wallpapers_dir: "~/wallpapers"

The directory that will store your wallpapers.

bin_dir: "~/.local/bin"

The directory used for user's binaries.

script_name: rotate_wallpaper

The name of the script that will be created and registered as cron job. It can be run manually to force a wallpaper rotation at any time.

cron_weekday: "*"
cron_hour: "*"
cron_minute: "0"

Cron parameters for controlling when the rotation takes place. See the Ansible Cron Module for details.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: djonasson.wallpapers

License

MIT

Author

This ansible role was created by Daniel Jonasson.