Set the Nasa Picture of the Day as your wallpaper, zoom background and Teams background!

This script is made to run on Linux. Tested only on Ubuntu >= 24.04 with i3wm >= 4.23

• jq Used to parse the APOD API output. Could probably be replaced by a simple regex but eh 🤷
• (Optional) feh Used to set up the desktop wallpaper. For now this is only tested on i3, for Gnome man feh recommends using gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file:///path instead.
• (Optional) zoom This program can change the virtual background you use on zoom
• (Optional)(Experimental) teams-for-linux This program can change the virtual background you use on Teams. This is highly experimental, refer to ./teams/README.md for more details.

1. Clone the repo and run the post-install.sh script. The script will add a line to the current user's crontab to run NWotD every hour.
2. Change the config in index.sh
   1. WALLPAPER_DIR must be an existing directory. Last downloaded wallpapers are stored there.
   2. ZOOM_BACKGROUND_PATH is the path to the virtual background file in zoom. You need to set a virtual background through the application first to create the image with a random name. Use this random name in the variable.

With i3 you can configure the script to run on start up by adding the following line in your $HOME/.config/i3/config file:

exec_always --no-startup-id /path/to/NWotD/index.sh -w >> /var/log/nwotd.log 2>&1

The script supports some parameter to tweak its actions:

• -f (force) By default the script doesn't run if $TODAY_WP_PATH is less than 12h old, -f prevents that
• -z (zoom) Update the $ZOOM_BACKGROUND_PATH file
• -w (wallpaper) Update the wallpaper with feh