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Daily Wallpaper

Pulls the top post from reddit.com/r/aww every 24 hours and sets the picture as your desktop background.

Program will pull top post from reddit.com/r/aww/top and set as background image anytime it is run.

**To make the program run in the background every 24 hours, follow steps below:

  1. Make script an executable. Type the following in the terminal: chmod +x dailyWallpaper.py

  2. Make the program run in the background even when terminal is closed. Type: nohup /path/to/dailyWallpaper.py &

  3. Run script from terminal and enter 'y' to run continuously

**To kill the program:

  1. Get the PID for the program. Type the following in the terminal: ps -A | grep -m1 dailyWallpaper.py | awk '{print $1}'

  2. Kill the process. Type into terminal: kill -9

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