Saving My Favourite Wallpapers
I am using the styli.sh
script as my wallpaper changer in sway and with a little transparency and wallpapers from unsplash I can quickly switch randomly through my wallpaper images and get things looking pretty nice.

I tend to switch a few times before I find one that I like, but that image tends to disappear when I restart my laptop and the wallpaper gets reset. What I would like to do is to have the ability to send the current wallpaper to a wallpaper favourite folder to build up a chosen set of images.
The first step to achieving this would be to add a couple of lines to the styli.sh
bash script to copy the current wallpaper image to a defined location. I am guessing that sway stores this image somewhere but as styli.sh
handles all the variables and logic I might as well add in the following:
swaymsg output "*" bg "$WALLPAPER" "$MODE"
rm ~/wallpaper-faves*.{jpg,jpeg,png,gif}
cp "$WALLPAPER" ~/wallpaper-faves-${WALLPAPER##*/}
and now for some emacs elisp to move this wallpaper image into a favourite folder :
(defun my/copy-background-to-faves ()
"Copy the current sway background to wallpaper faves folder"
(interactive)
(let* ((source-folder "/path/to/home/")
(faves-folder "/path/to/wallpaper/faves/")
(image-files (directory-files source-folder nil "^wallpaper-faves.*\\.\\(jpg\\|jpeg\\|png\\|gif\\)$" nil nil)))
(dolist (image-file image-files)
(rename-file (concat source-folder image-file) (concat faves-folder image-file) t)
)
)
)
Now over time my faves-folder
will build up with all my cherished wallpapers and I can begin the process again!