Okay, so I have been using ubuntu for more than 2 years now and it is really a nice experience. However there are some issues like changing brightness via settings in Ubuntu doesn't work. Also it would be cool to have features like periodically changing wallpapers, using our own custom notifications etc. So I searched web and found commands to accomplish above tasks. I created script files for these commands and used crontab to achieve desired behaviour.
As mentioned earlier, changing brightness via settings doesn't work so you can use brightness.sh.
Open a terminal and move to this repository. Run sh brightness.sh
You can use change-wallpaper.sh combined with crontab to change desktop wallpapers periodically. Just replace directory path in change-wallpaper.sh file (DIR variable) to your own directory path containing wallpepers and edit crontab to add this task.
- Open a terminal
- Move to this repository folder
- Add execute permission to change-wallpaper.sh
sudo chmod 755 change-wallpaper.sh - edit crontab file. use
crontab -eand add0 */1 * * * sh /home/varun/Desktop/scripts/change-wallpaper.sh - You can check your entry using
crontab -l - change-wallpaper.sh will be executed per hour. You can modify params to suit your needs.
I maintained a quote.txt file containing some quotes and used greeting.sh combined with crontab to periodically display quotes. Just add following entry in crontab file to display quote per half an hour.
*/30 * * * * bash /home/varun/Desktop/scripts/greeting.sh
