This simple PHP script generates XML files for background panel of GNOME Control Center. It allows you to add your own images to GNOME wallpapers gallery.

Clone this repository, then run build_application.php script to build convenient executable PHP file and move generated script to your $PATH. This script requires PHP 7.1 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/TomaszGasior/gnome-wp-list-generator.git
cd gnome-wp-list-generator
php build_application.php
mv gnome-wp-list-generator ~/.local/bin

Move your beautiful wallpapers to ~/.local/share/backgrounds directory and run gnome-wp-list-generator. Now, you can choose your wallpaper in background section of GNOME Control Center.

It's possible to set its own images directory with --directory option and install wallpapers configuration system-wide by --system switch.

• Ability to set wallpaper mode (zoom, centered, scaled, etc.).
• Optional (not default) recursive searching over specified directory.
• Automatically calculated fallback solid color for each wallpaper.
• Support for timed backgrounds.
• Unit tests.