Wallpaper Switcher

Intro

I love using cartoon images as my wallpapers. However, it can sometimes be awkward to show them in front of your audience during an academic presentation. Therefore, I made this little tool to save the day. It can help you quickly switch the wallpaper and switch back later.

Caution

• Only supports Windows
• Always back up your current wallpaper before using this tool

Installation

Download portable exe

• check the lateset release for the wallpaperSwitcher.exe

Build from source

• Install python environment. Google it if you don't have one.
• install pywin32 package with pip install pywin32
• install pyinstaller package with pip install pyinstaller
• Clone repo, or download and decompression source zip
• Enter the decompression folder and compile the exe file by pyinstaller --onefile --noconsole --icon=wallpaper.ico .\setWallpaper.py
  • You can modify the icon and scripts as you like
  • The exe file should be in dist folder, you can move it to any where as you like

Usage

1. Double-click to switch between the wallpapers in the list. The wallpaper list can be defined by
   1. An image path list in wallpaper.txt
   2. images in the folder named wallpapers
   3. image paths defined in default_wallpaper_files in the script
2. Drag an image to set it as your wallpaper
3. Drag any non-image-type file to it to manually select a wallpaper

Tip

wallpaper.txt and wallpapers folder should be in the same location as the executable file or the Python script.

More demos

Rotate images in list

Rotate images in folder

Drag image files

Drag non-image files to trigger image select

Rotate images in default list