RandomWallpaperGnome3

Random Wallpapers for Gnome 3 is a gnome shell extension which fetches a random wallpaper from an online source and sets it as desktop background.

Installation (symlink to repository)

Run git clone git@github.com:ifl0w/RandomWallpaperGnome3.git to clone the repository. Run ./install.sh to make a symbolic link from the extensions folder to the git repository. This installation will depend on the repository folder, so do not delete the cloned folder.

Installing this way has various advantages:

• Switching between versions and branches.
• Updateing the extension with git pull

Installation (manually)

Open the commandline and type the following lines:

git clone git@github.com:ifl0w/RandomWallpaperGnome3.git
cp -r RandomWallpaperGnome3/randomwallpaper@iflow.space ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

Then open the command prompt (Alt+F2) end enter r without qotes. Now you should be able to activate the extension through the gnome-tweak-tool.

Uninstall

Run ./install uninstall to delete the symbolic link. If you installed the extension manually you have to delete the extension folder with rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/randomwallpaper@iflow.space.

Debugging

Extension output can be followed with ./debug.sh. Information should be printed using the existing logger class but can also be printed with global.log() (not recommended). To debug the prefs.js use ./debug.sh perfs.

Compiling schemas

This can be done with the command: glib-compile-schemas randomwallpaper@iflow.space/schemas/