CharmMM
CharmMM is a tool to perfectly set Windows wallpaper on multi monitors/displays.
Motivation
Most software developers use more than one display in work to boost productivity, however, most of them just set boring wallpapers.
Even some customized wallpaper is set, in multi-display settings, Windows built-in wallpaper does not work well if you have displays like that:
Either the wallpaper get cropped, or there is a lot of blank area on screen...
This tool can help you get perfect wallpaper set. The wallpapers are searched and downloaded from Pexels, specified by your keywords. More features are to be added.
Prerequisites
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Wget is installed.
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In Windows Background settings, set Choose a fit option to Tile
Installation
npm install -g charm-mm
Usage
charm-mm -c config.yml
Read config.yml.sample and modify it to create config.yml.
Any parameter defined in config.yml can be override at runtime with command line arguments. For example, to override the keyword settings:
charm-mm -c config.yml --keyword=sea
The options are case-insensitive when specifying at command line.
Changelog
Troubleshooting
UnauthorizedAccess for running GetDisplays.ps1 script
You get error like this:
... path/to/charm-mm...GetDisplays.ps1 : File C:\Users\Chevy Li\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\charm-mm\GetDisplays.ps1 cannot
be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.
At line:1 char:1
+ ... path/to/charm-mm... ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : SecurityError: (:) [], PSSecurityException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnauthorizedAccess
That's due to PowerShell execution restrictions. To solve, as suggested in the error message, you have to change the ExecutionPolicy of PowerShell. For example, change policy to AllSigned for current user by running this command in an Powershell (running as Administrator):
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy AllSigned -Scope CurrentUser
Credit
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https://github.com/imniko/SetDPI
The binary release in included to get the DPI of monitors