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Sep 05, 2018 One of the novelties of macOS Mojave is the dynamic background, that is a wallpaper that automatically changes according to the time of day. Certainly it is not a relevant function, but it is certainly a nice effect that makes it more beautiful to see the desktop of your Mac.
- Jun 15, 2018 Another feature, equally interesting on macOS Mojave is the dynamic wallpapers which change automatically. Sure, Windows 10 and even prior versions have had a slideshow wallpaper feature which may sound similar but it isn’t. This is because the slideshow wallpapers on Windows change automatically after a set interval of time.
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The latest version of macOS comes with a “dynamic desktop” background that subtly changes throughout the day. In this post we show you how you to use it on your Linux desktop.
As we said in our post on macOS Mojave features available on Linux: time-triggered wallpapers are not new. They’ve been available for a long, long time. Heck, you might already use one.
Once enabled, your desktop background will change every few hours to an image that reflects the time of day.
But there’s no denying that Apple’s choice of subject matter, its high quality photography, and the subtle transition from day to night between each shot is a touch classier than shuffling between random set of wallpapers every 30 mins.
Want the same thing on Linux? You can. One of our Twitter followers got in touch to share a bespoke GTK background slideshow he’s created. This borrows the high-resolution macOS Mojave dynamic desktop wallpapers and matches it up to a time-based schedule written in
xml
.It looks and works great.
Once enabled, your desktop wallpaper changes every few hours to 1 of 16 images that reflect the time of day.
Use macOS Mojave Dynamic Desktop Wallpapers on Linux
Wan to get the slideshow up and running on your system? You can, though it does require a couple of steps (nothing too difficult, mind).
1. Download macOS Mojave wallpapers
First things first: you need to download the macOS Mojave desert wallpapers. These can be downloaded from a number of places online, in a variety of resolutions, with a variety of licensing disclaimers.
The author of this script has a direct link to a complete
.zip
of macOS Mojave wallpapers in 5K resolution. You’ll find the link at the top of his Github Gist.Just copy/paste that link in to a new browser tab to download the archive.
2. Create a ‘wallpapers’ folder
Next, head to the Pictures directory in your home folder and create a new folder called ‘wallpapers’ (all lowercase).
Extract the .zip you downloaded in the step above into the new ‘wallpapers’ folder you created.
There’s a typo in the name of the folder that you need to fix. Just edit the folder name and replace the underscore (
_
) between ‘mojave’ and ‘dynamic’ for a hyphen (-
).You should end up with a path like this (where * is a number between 1-16):
It’s important that you do not change the filename of any images inside this folder, and ensure that the folder name itself is correct. This is because the XML slideshow uses hardcoded paths.
If you have to change file names, make sure you amend the XML file in the next step accordingly.
3. Get the XML slideshow
The following XML file is what tells your desktop which wallpaper to apply at what time of day. 16 doesn’t divide into 24 neatly, so it’s not as simply as shuffling wallpapers on the hour, every hour:
Download the XML from Gist using the link below:
Once downloaded you need to open the mojave.xml file in a text editor of your choice to run find/replace on ‘thanh‘, replacing this username with your systems’ username.
So, for example, on my system each path goes from this (bold denotes change):
to this:
Remember to hit save after you’re done tweaking it.
4. Set the macOS Mojave Dynamic Wallpaper
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With everything downloaded to the correct place and tweaked appropriately you can go ahead and set the wallpaper slide on your system,
To do this, open the GNOME Tweaks tool and, in the Appearance section, select the mojave.xml as your desktop background.
All going well the change will take effect instantly.
The exact image you see first will depend on the time of day it is. If you’re following this guide in the evening you can expect to see a night-time shot, while those of you doing this in the morning will see a lighter, daytime image, like so:
I've created this wallpaper slideshow for GNOME Linux that replicate the dynamic background on macOS Mojave. Quite nice to see the background changes to reflect time of the day. Follow this link for instruction: https://t.co/6OVZxNpuCA cc @omgubuntupic.twitter.com/gg4Qr3WsOd
— Thanh Trần (@trongthanh) June 26, 2018
Summary
Is this pure eye candy or something that could prove essential? I’ll let you decide, but I will say that it’s all-too easy to lose track of time when you’re working (or gaming) all day.
But with this dynamic desktop wallpaper set your Ubuntu desktop picture changes with the time of day helping guide your sense of time (consciously or unconsciously) along with it.
I admit: I'm fascinated by Apple's new Dynamic Desktop feature, which became widely available with the launch of macOS Mojave last week. There's just something magical about a wallpaper that shows a fixed-point view that changes as your day goes by.
However, Apple only offers two Dynamic Desktop wallpapers by default: One a beautiful photo of the Mojave desert, and the other a somewhat bland, ever-changing color gradient.
If that's not enough for you, there's a solution: A couple of them, in fact.
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Back in June, developer Marcin Czachurski discovered that Apple's dynamic wallpapers are a bunch of images and a short text file describing certain properties of the image, such as altitude and azimuth (which pinpoint the position of the Sun when the image was taken).
With this knowledge, you can create a dynamic wallpaper yourself. The technical aspects of it, described here, aren't too complicated, and Czachurski even created a small command line app that makes it easier. But taking a bunch of high-quality photographs — especially if you want to do a fixed view of the same place at different times in the day — will likely be a bit much for most people.
Luckily, some crafty folks have already created dynamic wallpapers using this method. Czachurski himself shared a beautiful Google Earth-based wallpaper — you can find it here. And people on Reddit have shared their creations or findings here.
Dynamic wallpapers aren't simple images; they come in the form of .heic files. To install them, first set your wallpaper to any dynamic wallpaper in Mojave. Then just right click on the .heic file and choose 'Set Desktop Picture.' The wallpaper should show up and continue to dynamically change as your day goes on. To make things a little easier, you can also move the .heic files to the /Library/Desktop Pictures folders, and Mojave will then list them as options when you go to Settings — Destkop & Screen Saver. Beware, though, that if the files aren't properly constructed, things can get messy; for example, Apple might not show the correct icons for these new dynamic backgrounds.
There's an even easier solution. An app called 24 Hour Wallpaper, available on Apple's App Store offers a total of 58 wallpapers. Some of these have a fixed view, while some are simply a mix of different images related to the same topic, but they all look pretty good. The app is compatible with macOS Mojave but it also works on older macOS versions, down to macOS 11.11. The catch is that the app is not free; it costs $6.99.
I've tested the app and it has a surprising amount of options, including the ability to choose any location in the world, customize sunrise and sunset times and set a 'playlist' that continuously changes your dynamic wallpaper to a different set of images at an interval of your choosing. You can set different wallpapers on different displays as well — though I haven't found an option to set a different wallpaper for each virtual desktop.
There's even an option to let macOS do the work, which disables most of the extra features and essentially just sets a new dynamic wallpaper while the app resides in the background as a simple wallpaper gallery.
![Dynamic Dynamic](/uploads/1/2/6/5/126589130/839632226.png)
Hopefully, someone will create a repository of dynamic wallpapers down the road and finding these will be as easy as finding a regular wallpaper. For now, though, any of the methods described above should quench your thirst for dynamic desktop goodness.