rangeela

What is it?

rangeela in 'Hindi' means colourful. Rangeela is a little script to generate an image full of randomly coloured squares, which you can set as your wallpaper or whatever you feel like.

Quick Start

Installation requires python2 obviously, gtk for reading the screen resolution, and PIL (Python Image Library)

You can install all of them from your favorite package manager, if you are like me using Arch(or Arch-like) then you can search your official repos using

sudo pacman -Ss

Instructions

1. $ git clone https://github.com/anshulc95/rangeela.git ~/rangeela
2. $ cd ~/rangeela
3. $ python2 rangeela.py
4. Now your wallpaper is generated, you can use your preferred wallpaper manager to set this as your wallpaper.

Example

This is what the wallpaper is going to look like:

Inspiration

colorblobks

TODO:

1. Use argparse to get specific instructions
2. Add the wallpaper to Ubuntu's default Unity wallpaper manager

Contact Me:

twitter GitHub

Release notes

1.1.0

I have replaced the pygame with PIL(Python Image Library) since it's better maintained and is focused specially on image manipulation, thus giving me more things to try with images.

I have faded the colours, tried to mute them down. By mixing them with the 'white' colour, and then taking a average of them.

I have removed the feature of script setting the wallpaper for you, I realised people have different application according to their taste which they use for customizing their desktop, so setting wallpaper, I leave that to you.

You can find previous releases here