Conway's Game of Life Wallpaper

This wallpaper generate a generation of a Conway's Game of Life which grow over time and saved through restart

Installation

There is 3 importants files that you will use for installation: editor.py, config.json, board.txt.

• editor.py is used to convert an image to a board
• board.txt is where the board is stored for next generation
• config.json is the main config file you'll need to modify

Before setting up a cronjob you need to create a board, you can either hardcode it (hard) or make it from an image with editor.py. Then, you can modify config.json to make it compatible with your screen. The current config use a 256x144 canvas for a 2560x1440 screen.

Running

After changing the config.json, you can setup a cronjob that will run every X

* * * * * python main.py

But this alone with only create a new wallpaper every minutes, on Linux, the command to change the wallpaper depends on your DE, for GNOME it's the following: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file://ABS_PATH_TO_IMG.png (add a && between the two commands)

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