With every major OS update come cosmetic changes ranging from subtle alterations to the appearance of UI elements to a complete overhaul of the design language. One thing that remains a constant, however, is the introduction of new stock wallpapers. macOS 10.14 Mojave continues that timeless tradition, but with a slight twist. The default desktop background that comes packed with the latest iteration of macOS changes to match the time of day, and for a shot of a lone sand dune somewhere in the Mojave desert, boy does it look elegant.
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If you agree, and are hoping there’s a way to port the dynamic wallpaper over to your Windows desktop, you’ll be pleased to know that there is more than one way this can be done.
Note that each solution has its own set of benefits and shortcomings, though there is a clear winner when it comes to cloning the default macOS Mojave offering. Let’s start with that one, shall we?
Update: WinDynamicDesktop added.
While we have three solutions to explore here, WinDynamicDesktop is, hands down, the most accurate of the lot. Its author describes it as a port of the macOS Mojave dynamic wallpaper feature and it does a wonderful job emulating it. Here’s how to download and set it up.
1. Download the WinDynamicDesktop EXE file from the link below and run it.
Download WinDynamicDesktop [Microsoft Store]
2. You will now be asked to specify your location. Enter the name of your city and hit OK.
3. From the window that follows, select a theme of choice. The application comes packed with the default macOS Mojave Desert theme as well as an extra theme featuring a collection of Solar Gradients. Hit OK.
Note: You may also enable Dark Mode if you’d rather only have the application switch between the darker wallpapers in each collection.
4. The application will now begin running in the background, automatically changing the wallpaper to match the time of day. Click its system tray icon and select Options > Start when Windows boots so you don’t have to launch the application every time you restart. You can use the same menu to have the application change Windows accents based on the current wallpaper, switch between themes, or change locations.
1. Download the macOS Mojave wallpaper pack and unzip the archive to a location of choice.
2. Download the free Wallpaper Change Scheduler application from the following link. The app allows you to create events that automatically change your wallpaper following a trigger of choice, such as time of day.
3. Launch the downloaded EXE file, and hit the Create and Run button. This will allow the app to create a shortcut in the Startup folder, which it requires to begin running automatically when Windows starts up.
4. Once that is done, you can begin creating your dynamic wallpaper. Click Add Event.
5. For the first event, you may want to set the time to 1200 hours and the image to mojave_dynamic_7 from the downloaded pack.
Note: If you’d like to include all 16 wallpapers in the pack, you will have to create 16 events 1.5 hours (an hour and 30 minutes) apart.
6. Set the Trigger option to Daily and the Wallpaper Style to Fit. Set a name for the event, hit Create and repeat the process for the next event.
The benefit of using this app is that it will always display the wallpaper you linked to a particular time of day, instead of simply moving through the pack like a slideshow. It still won’t be as accurate as the real thing as it won’t automatically adjust itself to cater for the changing length of days in your region, there are no smooth transition to be had, and yes, it does take a bit of time to set up.
If you don’t care all that much about the wallpaper matching the time of day, the second solution may be more your speed.
1. Download the macOS Mojave wallpaper pack and unzip the archive to a location of choice.
2. Right-click an empty space on the desktop and select Personalize.
3. From the Background dropdown, select Slideshow, then select the unzipped folder containing the Mojave wallpapers.
4. Set the Change picture every frequency to 1 hour.
The desktop slideshow offers smooth transitions, but wallpapers are not linked to specific times of day. Every time you start your PC up, the slideshow will simply resume from the last wallpaper in its queue. If that is important to you, the first solution is your best bet.
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The latest version of macOS comes with a “dynamic desktop” background that subtly changes throughout the day. In this post we show you how you to use it on your Linux desktop.
As we said in our post on macOS Mojave features available on Linux: time-triggered wallpapers are not new. They’ve been available for a long, long time. Heck, you might already use one.
Once enabled, your desktop background will change every few hours to an image that reflects the time of day.
But there’s no denying that Apple’s choice of subject matter, its high quality photography, and the subtle transition from day to night between each shot is a touch classier than shuffling between random set of wallpapers every 30 mins.
Want the same thing on Linux? You can. One of our Twitter followers got in touch to share a bespoke GTK background slideshow he’s created. This borrows the high-resolution macOS Mojave dynamic desktop wallpapers and matches it up to a time-based schedule written in xml.
It looks and works great.
Once enabled, your desktop wallpaper changes every few hours to 1 of 16 images that reflect the time of day.
Wan to get the slideshow up and running on your system? You can, though it does require a couple of steps (nothing too difficult, mind).
First things first: you need to download the macOS Mojave desert wallpapers. These can be downloaded from a number of places online, in a variety of resolutions, with a variety of licensing disclaimers.
The author of this script has a direct link to a complete .zip of macOS Mojave wallpapers in 5K resolution. You’ll find the link at the top of his Github Gist.
Just copy/paste that link in to a new browser tab to download the archive.
Next, head to the Pictures directory in your home folder and create a new folder called ‘wallpapers’ (all lowercase).
Extract the .zip you downloaded in the step above into the new ‘wallpapers’ folder you created.
There’s a typo in the name of the folder that you need to fix. Just edit the folder name and replace the underscore (_) between ‘mojave’ and ‘dynamic’ for a hyphen (-).
You should end up with a path like this (where * is a number between 1-16):
It’s important that you do not change the filename of any images inside this folder, and ensure that the folder name itself is correct. This is because the XML slideshow uses hardcoded paths.
Pdf expert bundle. If you have to change file names, make sure you amend the XML file in the next step accordingly.
The following XML file is what tells your desktop which wallpaper to apply at what time of day. 16 doesn’t divide into 24 neatly, so it’s not as simply as shuffling wallpapers on the hour, every hour:
Download the XML from Gist using the link below:
Once downloaded you need to open the mojave.xml file in a text editor of your choice to run find/replace on ‘thanh‘, replacing this username with your systems’ username.
So, for example, on my system each path goes from this (bold denotes change):
to this:
Remember to hit save after you’re done tweaking it.
With everything downloaded to the correct place and tweaked appropriately you can go ahead and set the wallpaper slide on your system,
To do this, open the GNOME Tweaks tool and, in the Appearance section, select the mojave.xml as your desktop background.
All going well the change will take effect instantly.
The exact image you see first will depend on the time of day it is. If you’re following this guide in the evening you can expect to see a night-time shot, while those of you doing this in the morning will see a lighter, daytime image, like so:
I've created this wallpaper slideshow for GNOME Linux that replicate the dynamic background on macOS Mojave. Quite nice to see the background changes to reflect time of the day. Follow this link for instruction: https://t.co/6OVZxNpuCA cc @omgubuntupic.twitter.com/gg4Qr3WsOd
— Thanh Trần (@trongthanh) June 26, 2018
Is this pure eye candy or something that could prove essential? I’ll let you decide, but I will say that it’s all-too easy to lose track of time when you’re working (or gaming) all day.
But with this dynamic desktop wallpaper set your Ubuntu desktop picture changes with the time of day helping guide your sense of time (consciously or unconsciously) along with it.
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