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Bing Picture Of The Day As Desktop Wallpaper?

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Answer : Probably the easiest thing to do would be to install variety. It is a wall-paper manager that really does an excellent job to change your wallpaper at the frequency you want. Here are some of its settings: the frequency of the download the frequency of changing the image (once a day, at every reboot, every minute,...) where you want to download your images from where you want to store them on your computer quotes (either automatically or from a source) a nice clock. There is also a setting to run it at login. If you enable that and then add your bing image of the day url ( http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=picture+of+the+day&qpvt=picture+of+the+day&FORM=IGRE ?), you are all set. It can be found in the software center and it has a 5* rating! Here are some screenshots: I wrote a little node script that does exactly that : https://github.com/dorian-marchal/bing-daily-wallpaper To install it, you'll need nodejs : sudo apt-get install no...