Crane

 Yesterday I shoot with my Pixel 6 Pro couple of pictures  on the trail in neighboring town.

Firs one made when crane just walked out of creek water.  

And here is the same crane again staying still next to a fence.

 

Wallpaper

 I just published small Go  project on GitHub:

https://github.com/jumbleview/decor

This is the program which takes jpeg picture as argument and set it as Windows desktop background.

Command line looks like this:

• decor.exe [-s] path_to_jpeg_file

It starts with single argument: path to jpeg file. If before an argument there is the flag -s program starts in silent mode (without console).

Program reads jpeg file, encodes it, crops image so it's width-to-height ratio matches width-to-height ratio of computer monitor, saves the image as bmp file and sets it as a screen background.

It is pure Go program. It should be compiled with command

go build -ldflags -H=windowsgui 

Using such flags allows to start without Windows console attached. Console is created dynamically or suppressed by flag -s.

This program allows to change background by desktop shortcut, batch file or schedule background change with Task scheduler.

Update on September 13, 2024.

One more project on GitHub:

https://github.com/jumbleview/picshuffle

It is more advanced version of background utility.  It starts with such  command:

• picshuffle.exe [-s] [-l] path_to_folder_or_jpeg_file

If argument is a path to a jpeg file program  works exactly as decor.exe.   

In case argument is a path to a directory with some jpeg files program reads content of directory and randomly picks one file from that directory to set it as a desktop background. Program tracks selected files in storage picshuffle.db so once selected file will not be selected again till all files from this directory are taken.

I personally use this program out of Windows task scheduler at log on event. Each time after a log on into the system  I see different background picture.

To track selected files program uses embedded key-value store  bolt  (go.etcd.io/bbolt). If started with flag [-l] program prints list of files used as a background within last 365 days.