this is amazing. thank you

Never mind my previous comment, the scaling done by Cinnamon is fine. The "artifacts" I noticed exist in the wallpaper I noticed them with (stock Mint 22 wallpaper "Ocean") and are not due to scaling.

Sometimes the daily wallpaper isn't pleasant, as they often show some ugly animals. if I knew how to code in Javascript (is it?) I would add a parameter to change the "today" in a date one or some days back. and then add this parameter in line 109 of the script ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/bing-wallpaper@starcross.dev/applet.js const now = GLib.DateTime.new_now_utc(); As I can't ... can someone do? subtract 1 or 2 or X from this date and see if it helps ?

Somehow it bothers me that the applet downloads a 4K wallpaper while I only have a 1080p monitor. The scaling done by Cinnamon is also not always without artifacts. I changed const urlUHD = url.replace(regex, `_UHD.`); to const urlUHD = url; to change this, but I have to do this after each update. A toggle would be nice. Anyway, thanks for the applet, enjoying the wallpapers so far!

awesome... but how to active it again after we use local wallpaper?

In the meantime there has been an update. The applet works very well. Great work

Hi Alex, this is a really great little applet. I'm using it on LM 21.1 with no problem. I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of modifying your code to address two of the issues other users have raised here - my modified version now a) saves to the user's Pictures folder, and b) auto-archives the previous day's wallpaper and its accompanying metadata each time a new image is downloaded. I've never developed an applet before, so it was a great learning experience for me. The biggest hurdle was figuring out that to get Cinnamon to reload the applet after each change, I had to restart the desktop. I was tearing my hair out wondering why none of the changes I made were taking effect :) I'll try posting the changed applet.js here in the comments tomorrow, unless you have a preferred way for me to share it (indeed, you might prefer me not to distribute it, and as the author that's your perogative!)

The application is dead. ASince Apr 21, 2020 the author has not updated or worked on it. Support is also no longer available.

Images are not downloaded completely. The bottom half of the image is missing. It would be advantageous if the image of the day is downloaded after the start of the operating system with a time delay of 20 seconds. OS: LMDE 5 Lenovo ThinkPad T420 Intel Core i5-2520M (2.50GHz, 3MB L3, 1333MHz FSB) Intel HD 3000 Grafik RAM 8GB

1) How can I reload or refresh the image if it was not loaded correctly? 2) How to change the location of the images (https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/blob/master/bing-wallpaper%40starcross.dev/files/bing-wallpaper%40starcross.dev/applet.js#L41) instead of $user/.config/bingwallpaper to usr/share/backgrounds?

Thanks for the applet. Though I had to manually load the folder from the Desktop Background settings, at least it works. Is there a way to save each day's image with the name as per applet info?

Hi :) Thanks for this applet, it's awesome to have all these images as backgrounds, makes the experience of using my PC much nicer. I have the following issue: the image appears zoomed in, and it getts bigger and bigger throughout the day (I don't know the rule to replicate this). - Here's a screenshot of my desktop: https://i.imgur.com/ccCZRVK.png - And this is Bing homepage: https://i.imgur.com/oqLIjml.png I'm using Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon 5.4.11 btw. Any help is welcomed, TIA.

Is there a way to set it up so the icon/panel isn't visible?

It would be amazing if someone could adapt this extension to make it possible to choose between Bing and Wikimedia Commons Image of the day. Or fork and adapt it.

After a crash of my system, the applet seems not wok. After some debug, I find that _downloadMetaData function get status_code 6, which means SOUP_STATUS_SSL_FAILED and the applet keeps re-download every 60 seconds. I does not know why it keeps return this error, but when I change the URI of bing to use http instead of https, it seems the applet starts work. By the way, I find that Soup is really hard to use, I spent the whole afternoon to find out what the status_code 6 means, and even now, I still does not known how to find out what is the problem with the SSL connection.

is here any log files for Bing Desktop Wallpaper applet? My cinnamon desktop crashed and I reinstalled it, after that wall paper seems not work, I have tried to reinstall it, but it not works. I also tried to find the script under ~/.config dir, but it seems nothing useful under the dir.

How can I remove old Bing downloaded images from my system? Where can I locate Bing downloaded images?

Thank you very much. I love this applet!

Some times duo to internet connection image will load incomplete,Is there any solution or method I'll be able refresh loaded image again?

Great app! One comment though. In Mint 20.1 the picture is not saved as described in the README ("to the user's Pictures folder"). Instead it's saved in /home/"user"/.config/bingwallpaper, which is a hidden folder. I think it should be saved as described. That would make it easily accesible.

it would be great if wallpaper will be change based on local time or user can set refresh time based on location he/she is living.

Wallpaper does not changed after first installation. Firstly, it changed my default wallpaper to nice flying frog. But, when wallpaper was changed on the phone, I have checked picture on the desktop - in icon written "Clouds above Tenerife", but frog still flying.

Current wallpaper description is lost when Cinnamon is restarted. Could it be stored somewhere?

Thanks for this update, works well on mint 19.3. Could it have an option to remove the taskbar icon in the future ?