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Django is my favorite web development framework, it is mature, its documentation and community are excellent. When I wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of Django I explained you how to go from an idea to a working prototype in a very short time and without writing almost any code. I learned much of what I know about this framework years ago, reading and practicing the contents of a book called Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right by the authors Adrian Holovaty , Jacob Kaplan-Moss (co-creators of Django) and impeccably translated into Spanish by Saul Garcia under the title La guía definitiva de Django: Desarrolla aplicaciones web de forma rápida y sencilla.

In the previous post we made an automatic wallpaper changer in Python

In this entry we are going to use Cron to program the periodic execution of this script and that it is in charge of changing the wallpaper every certain time, automatically, every hour, two hours, every day, every minute or the frequency that we want.

If you don’t know how Cron daemon works and how to schedule tasks using this tool, please check my post about Cron and Crontab .

In this post we are going to create an automatic, random and minimalistic wallpaper changer for GNU/Linux using Python. With no extra functions, super lightweight and totally homemade, its only function will be to randomly select an image and set it as wallpaper. I will explain the function of each line in the code.

Updated Updated for Gnome 43 and Python 3.12

If you are not familiar with Python syntax, read about one of the best books for getting into Python in my post about the book Python Immersion .