painter

Manage the Windows desktop wallpaper from the terminal

Installation

• Try using Scoop.
  

  • ensure that the extras bucket is installed.
  • install:

    $ scoop install painter
    

• Or, if you don't want to use a package manager, just download painter.exe from the latest release in the latest releases section.

Usage

painter.exe [command] [args]

Commands

• get
  Retrieve the path to the current wallpaper. E.g.

  $ ./painter get
  "C:\\Users\\foo\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Themes\\TranscodedWallpaper"
  

• set [path]
  Set the wallpaper to an image. E.g.

  $ ./painter set "C:\Users\foo\Pictures\wallpaper.jpg"
  

Inspiration

• wallpaper-rs by @MOZGIII
• win-wallpaper by the venerable @sindresorhus