Lightweight GNOME shell extension to set your wallpaper to a random Google Earth photo from a selection of pool of 2,604 curated locations.
Disclaimer: this extension is unofficial and not affiliated with Google in any way. Images are protected by copyright, and are licensed only for use as wallpapers.
- Fetches a random Google Earth wallpaper and sets as desktop wallpaper and lock screen
- User selectable refresh intervals (default is once per day)
- Optional: keep images or clean up after (later is default)
- View location on Google Maps, Bing Maps, Gnome Maps, OpenStreetMaps
GNOME Shell 3.36+ (Ubuntu Gnome 20.04 LTS+), legacy support exists for earlier GNOME Shell versions (3.28+)
Install from extensions.gnome.org
or install directly to your GNOME extensions directory (if you want to hack on it)
mkdir ~/source
cd ~/source
git clone https://github.com/neffo/earth-view-wallpaper-gnome-extension.git
cd earth-view-wallpaper-gnome-extension
sh install.sh
This extension is derived from my Bing Wallpaper GNOME extension, which was based extensively on the NASA APOD extension by Elinvention. Curated locations and images come from Google's Earth View website and the associated Chrome extension.
