Earth View Wallpaper Gnome Extension
| Project Name | Stars | Downloads | Repos Using This | Packages Using This | Most Recent Commit | Total Releases | Latest Release | Open Issues | License | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Himawaripy | 1,534 | 9 months ago | 1 | August 09, 2018 | 17 | mit | Python | |||
| Set near-realtime picture of Earth as your desktop background | ||||||||||
| Earthlivesharp | 767 | 3 years ago | 6 | mit | C# | |||||
| live view of earth from space | ||||||||||
| Earth | 258 | 3 years ago | 2 | gpl-3.0 | Java | |||||
| Live Earth Wallpapers | 245 | 4 months ago | gpl-3.0 | Python | ||||||
| A collection of all earth related space Images in one script to set as your Desktop background. | ||||||||||
| Oh My Earth | 162 | 3 years ago | 4 | mit | Python | |||||
| Make a real time earth picture as your wallpaper | ||||||||||
| Himawari Bg | 86 |  | 1 | 3 | 2 months ago | 9 | April 18, 2022 | isc | JavaScript | |
| :earth_asia: Set the latest image from Himawari 8 as your desktop background. | ||||||||||
| Earth View Wallpaper Gnome Extension | 59 | a month ago | 6 | gpl-3.0 | JavaScript | |||||
| A beautiful satellite image from Google Earth as your GNOME desktop wallpaper. | ||||||||||
| Chollianwallpaper | 51 | 10 months ago | 10 | other | C++ | |||||
| 🌎 Real time wallpaper engine for Windows and macOS | ||||||||||
| Earth_wallpaper | 37 | 3 months ago | gpl-3.0 | Python | ||||||
| 🌏Simple and easy to use multifunctional wallpaper software | ||||||||||
| Earthview Wallpapers | 35 | 6 years ago | mit | |||||||
| 🌎 Wallpapers from Earth View Chrome extension by Google Maps. | ||||||||||
GNOME Shell extension - Google Earth Wallpaper
Lightweight GNOME shell extension to set your wallpaper to a random Google Earth photo from a selection of pool of 2,604 curated locations.
Disclaimer: this extension is unofficial and not affiliated with Google in any way. Images are protected by copyright, and are licensed only for use as wallpapers.
Features
- Fetches a random Google Earth wallpaper and sets as desktop wallpaper and lock screen
- User selectable refresh intervals (default is once per day)
- Optional: keep images or clean up after (later is default)
- View location on Google Maps, Bing Maps, Gnome Maps, OpenStreetMaps
Requirements
GNOME Shell 3.36+ (Ubuntu Gnome 20.04 LTS+), legacy support exists for earlier GNOME Shell versions (3.28+)
Install
Install from extensions.gnome.org
or install directly to your GNOME extensions directory (if you want to hack on it)
mkdir ~/source
cd ~/source
git clone https://github.com/neffo/earth-view-wallpaper-gnome-extension.git
cd earth-view-wallpaper-gnome-extension
sh install.sh
Other works
This extension is derived from my Bing Wallpaper GNOME extension, which was based extensively on the NASA APOD extension by Elinvention. Curated locations and images come from Google's Earth View website and the associated Chrome extension.
Screenshots
