{"id":562,"date":"2020-11-09T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T12:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/?p=562"},"modified":"2020-11-15T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T16:59:15","slug":"random-wallpaper-from-pictures-and-subfolders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/09\/random-wallpaper-from-pictures-and-subfolders\/","title":{"rendered":"Random wallpaper from pictures and subfolders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OS X desktop changer does not follow subfolders in the image source folder. Since SnowLeopard the Screensaver will use the images in subfolders but the Desktop changer will not. As a workaround you can create a folder with links to all images, including images in subfolders (recursively).<br \/>\nIn System preferences set the Desktop changer to point to the folder with the links as image source.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a shell script that will create symbolic links (in ~\/Desktop\/Wallpapers) to all pictures (in ~\/Pictures) recursively: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/documents\/wallpaper_links.command\">wallpaper_links.command<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Python script will show the path to the current image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/documents\/tkWallpaperCurrent.py\">tkWallpaperCurrent.py<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chaosgeordend.nl\/mt-blog-cg\/images\/tkWallpaperCurrent.png\" alt=\"tkWallpaperCurrent.py\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OS X desktop changer does not follow subfolders in the image source folder. Since SnowLeopard the Screensaver will use the images in subfolders but the Desktop changer will not. As a workaround you can create a folder with links to all images, including images in subfolders (recursively). In System preferences set the Desktop changer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/09\/random-wallpaper-from-pictures-and-subfolders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random wallpaper from pictures and subfolders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-os_x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosgeordend.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}