NatGeoWalls Creates A XML Wallpaper Set From 2009 National Geographic Wallpapers [Linux / Gnome]

[Linux (Gnome) only]: Lucast @ Gnome Look has created a script which uses my NatGeo wallpapers download script to get all the wallpapers for 2009 (~170 wallpapers) from the National Geographic website and then it creates a .xml file similar to the Cosmos wallpaper set in Gnome 2.28 which you can then use to automatically change your wallpaper every 29 minutes.

I have checked the script and is malware-free so it's safe to use!

To install it, download the script from Gnome-Look, place it in a new folder, make it executable:

sudo chmod a+x /path/to/NatGeoWalls

(replace /path/to with the path to the script)
And then run it (navigate to the folder where you copied the script):

sudo ./NatGeoWalls

Give the script a few minutes to download all the wallpapers. Once it's done, right click on your desktop, select "Change Desktop Background", on the "Background" tab select "Add" and browse for "/usr/share/backgrounds/natgeo/" and select "All files" on the right so that you can select the backgrounds-1.xml file as your desktop background:

Now you can pick this as your wallpaper set:

Automatically Download All The Wallpapers From National Geographic (Almost 400 Wallpapers) [Windows, Linux, Mac OS X]

I like changing my wallpaper automatically with a script (but alternatively, you can use Desktop Drapes or a similar app) every few minutes, but for that you need a lot of wallpapers.

You can already download hundreds of wallpapers with just one command but I really like the National Geographic wallpapers which are actually professional, amazing photos, so I made 2 really easy scripts which automatically downloads all the wallpapers (to date, the script will have to be modified when they add new wallpapers because the link is not fixed) from he National Geographic website.

To download all the National Geographic wallpapers from the 2008 or 2009 contests, simply download my scripts (download links at the end of the post), place them in a folder where you want to download all the wallpapers and run it like so:

./natgeo2008.shor./natgeo2009.sh

Of course, don't forget to make the scripts executable first:

chmod +x natgeo2008.sh

and:

chmod +x natgeo2009.sh

The "natgeo2008.sh" automatically downloads all the wallpapers for 1280 width screen resolution. To download the wallpapers for 800 or 1024 width screen resolution, edit the script and on top of it, replace:

res="1280"

with

res="1024"orres="800"

The "natgeo2009.sh" script downloads all the wallpapers from the 2009 wallpaper contest but the wallpapers are only available for 1600px screen width so simply run the script as stated above (don't change anything inside the script).


Note: The script for 2008 will download 226 wallpapers, and the script for 2009 will (w)get 170 wallpapers, all from the wallpaper contest so give the scripts some time to fetch all the wallpapers.

Download the script for Linux: for 2008 wallpapers | for 2009 wallpapers

Update 1 - Mac OS X: Reader LargePig has modified the scripts for Mac OS X. Download them from HERE (those scrips use curl instead of wget).

Update 2 - Windows: Fire Onyx has sent us the modified scripts for Windows. Download them from HERE. You need wget either in your path, or in the same directory as the script.

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