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I noticed on my Linux machine that if I change the image that is being used for the desktop, the desktop updates pretty quickly.

I would like to leverage this and write a python app that runs (about every 5 minutes) as a cron job to update the desktop with relevant data.

  • weather
  • time of day (remember, resolution is not going to be great)