Quirky Wallpaper: Top 10 Recent Cinema Releases As Your Wallpaper

By , Published January 13, 2010

IMPloader is a small script that sets your wallpaper as a collage of posters from the current top 10 cinema releases.
One caveat is that the script pulls its ‘data’ from a US-based soruce, meaning if you live anywhere else you’ll likely find poster for movies that aren’y yet released in your country. With that thought under our belts, let’s proceed.

Requirements:
- wget
- ruby
- imagemagick

The first two will be installed by default, but you may (for some reason) not have imagemagick installed. This can be got using: -

  • sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Install/Use

  • Download the script from here and extract somewhere accessible.
  • Right click the ‘imploader.rb’ script, go to ‘properties > permissions’ and make the script ‘executable’
  • Right click the ‘imploader.rb’ script again, this time choosing ‘Open with gedit’.
  • You need to set the following information: location to store wallpaper, wallpaper height & width and the style you want to choose.

The three styles are as follows, simply replace the number in the script with the one you wish to use: -Now run the script by either double-clicking on it or via the terminal using ‘./imploader.rb’

  • Once done, navigate to the directory where you chose to save it and set it as your wallpaper!

Other
I haven’t covered setting it up to run weekly/hourly, etc simply because running it manually is much quicker. Read the ‘READ ME’ included in the script for more information.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Alex

    $ Desktop/imploader.rb
    bash: Desktop/imploader.rb: /usr/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

    $ ls -l Desktop/imploader.rb
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 brett brett 2622 2010-01-13 14:08 Desktop/imploader.rb

    Don’t know Ruby, can you help?

    • http://indoorgames.co.cc Alexei Boronine

      When you “execute” a text file like that:

      $ Desktop/imploader.rb

      bash is reading the shebang (first line, starting with #!), which is telling bash what program it should use to read the source file, in this case /usr/bin/ruby

      Bash can’t find a file there, so it gives up. It seems that ruby is not installed. “sudo apt-get install ruby” should fix the problem.

      Running it with ruby explicitly:

      $ ruby Desktop/imploader.rb

      should give you a more meaningful error.

      • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

        If, after installing Ruby, the script still doesn’t work, it’s likely because the Ruby interpreter wasn’t installed to /usr/bin/ruby. In the case, change the shebang line to:

        #!/usr/bin/env ruby

        That way it will find the correct path to ruby all by itself, regardless of where it’s installed to.

    • John

      I’m no code monkey but it looks like perhaps you either do not have ruby installed or it is not installed to /usr/bin/ruby…

    • sb

      I think you need dos2unix:

      sudo apt-get install tofrodos

      then in terminal type “dos2unix ” with a space at the end and without the quotes, then drag and drop the script file and press enter. then run the script.

  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    I once had ineractive globe using KDE. This is kind of well integrated using Marble, it’s pretty cool!! =D

  • pt

    the link on Gnome-look is dead :(

  • Anonymous

    are these theater Releases or dvd releases

 
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