About

Konify is a script to generate semi-random desktop backgrounds. It is named after the artist who created the image that inspired it (I'll post a link when I find it).

There is a thread about this on the Arch forum.

For a 3D variant of this script, see konify3d.

Configurable Options

The following can be configured. See the comments in the script for more information.

• image size
• tile size
• tile palette (finite set of colors to use for background tiles)
• background color (the gridlines basically)
• overlay image (including urls)
• overlay image position
• convert overlay image to tiles
• output file (extension determines format)

Dependencies

The following are required to run this script.

• perl
• imagemagick
• tput (for the progress bar)

Examples

Output examples can be found here.