Karmic desktop contest script
Canonical
on 24 July 2009
This article is more than 16 years old.
I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install flickr first.
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