Updates

.settings/wallpaper-folder.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Enter the path to the folder that includes your wallpapers
+wallpaper_folder=$HOME/wallpaper

CHANGELOG

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/releases/2.9
 --------------------------------------------------------
 - Hyprpaper is the default wallpaper engine. swww will not be installed by the installer anymore. You can still switch to swww in the Dotfiles Settings App (System tab) but you need to install swww manually with yay -S swww
 - pfetch has been replaced with fastfetch (requires an update of the .bashrc)
+- Directory for wallpapers can be customized with new .settings/wallpaper-folder.sh
 
 Version 2.9
 https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/releases/2.9

hypr/scripts/wallpaper.sh

@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
 # ----------------------------------------------------- 
 
 # Cache file for holding the current wallpaper
+wallpaper_folder="$HOME/wallpaper"
+if [ -f ~/dotfiles/.settings/wallpaper-folder.sh ] ;then
+    source ~/dotfiles/.settings/wallpaper-folder.sh
+fi
+echo $wallpaper_folder
+
 cache_file="$HOME/.cache/current_wallpaper"
 blurred="$HOME/.cache/blurred_wallpaper.png"
 square="$HOME/.cache/square_wallpaper.png"
@@ -22,13 +28,13 @@ blur=$(cat $blur_file)
 # Create cache file if not exists
 if [ ! -f $cache_file ] ;then
     touch $cache_file
-    echo "$HOME/wallpaper/default.jpg" > "$cache_file"
+    echo "$wallpaper_folder/default.jpg" > "$cache_file"
 fi
 
 # Create rasi file if not exists
 if [ ! -f $rasi_file ] ;then
     touch $rasi_file
-    echo "* { current-image: url(\"$HOME/wallpaper/default.jpg\", height); }" > "$rasi_file"
+    echo "* { current-image: url(\"$wallpaper_folder/default.jpg\", height); }" > "$rasi_file"
 fi
 
 current_wallpaper=$(cat "$cache_file")
@@ -41,27 +47,27 @@ case $1 in
         if [ -f $cache_file ]; then
             wal -q -i $current_wallpaper
         else
-            wal -q -i ~/wallpaper/
+            wal -q -i $wallpaper_folder/
         fi
     ;;
 
     # Select wallpaper with rofi
     "select")
         sleep 0.2
-        selected=$( find "$HOME/wallpaper" -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg" -o -iname "*.png" \) -exec basename {} \; | sort -R | while read rfile
+        selected=$( find "$wallpaper_folder" -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg" -o -iname "*.png" \) -exec basename {} \; | sort -R | while read rfile
         do
-            echo -en "$rfile\x00icon\x1f$HOME/wallpaper/${rfile}\n"
+            echo -en "$rfile\x00icon\x1f$wallpaper_folder/${rfile}\n"
         done | rofi -dmenu -i -replace -config ~/dotfiles/rofi/config-wallpaper.rasi)
         if [ ! "$selected" ]; then
             echo "No wallpaper selected"
             exit
         fi
-        wal -q -i ~/wallpaper/$selected
+        wal -q -i $wallpaper_folder/$selected
     ;;
 
     # Randomly select wallpaper 
     *)
-        wal -q -i ~/wallpaper/
+        wal -q -i $wallpaper_folder/
     ;;
 
 esac
@@ -75,7 +81,7 @@ echo ":: Wallpaper: $wallpaper"
 # ----------------------------------------------------- 
 # get wallpaper image name
 # ----------------------------------------------------- 
-newwall=$(echo $wallpaper | sed "s|$HOME/wallpaper/||g")
+newwall=$(echo $wallpaper | sed "s|$wallpaper_folder/||g")
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------- 
 # Reload waybar with new colors