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I'm running timewall on Elementary OS, so I'm using a custom wallpaper setting command. I can manually run timewall set path/to/wallpaper.heif and it correctly updates the wallpaper, but I'm having issues getting daemon mode to work.

I've successfully got timewall running as a systemd service:

systemctl --user status timewall                                                                                                                                                                                                       

● timewall.service - Dynamic wallpapers daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/home/joegilkes/.config/systemd/user/timewall.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-03-16 18:22:49 UTC; 15h ago
   Main PID: 6958 (timewall)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/timewall.service
             └─6958 /home/joegilkes/.local/bin/timewall set --daemon

Mar 16 18:22:49 JGXPS15 systemd[1414]: Started Dynamic wallpapers daemon.

I can also confirm that the daemon is running as a process. However, it isn't changing the wallpaper automatically, and any changes still require me manually running timewall set.

Just a suggestion; I noticed that with the WantedBy=default.target, that timewall would start, but it wouldn't actually set the wallpaper when logging in to Gnome, because it was started before the compositor is running. Changing the target to be WantedBy=graphical-session.target makes it so that it doesn't actually start until you're in a graphical session.

This is just a suggestion, and I am by no means a systemd unit expert.

Wallpapers can take rapidly big amounts of storage when trying different wallpapers.
We can clear the cache manually, but this removes all the wallpaper caches and the background will become black. A simple timewall clear-cache would be very useful, to only clear the cache of the wallpapers not set.

A verbosity flag?

Just wanted to install your app but trying it via cargo gave me the following error unfortunately:

note: /bin/ld: cannot find -lheif: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Any pointers for this? I have libheif and libheif-devel installed though and will try the Tarball now.