How to download wallpapers from a website using the terminal?

Ineedwords1121 · 07-31-2009, 02:41 PM

Hi after long wait and lots of frustrated hours Ubuntu finally works on my laptop. Thanks so much to linux-questions for help with Nvidia and Madwifi , the whole she-bang lol. Now how do i pimp this thing out? I found the website, gnome-look.org, and im diggin all the wallpapers but i dont know how to download the wallpapers from the terminal and put them in the background folder. Help is appreciated. Thanks guys...

linus72 · 07-31-2009, 02:46 PM

er...why not use nautilus to copy/paste wallpapers into /usr/share/backgrounds ??

you can use wget to download from terminal too

Quote:

wget http://multidistro.com/shots/rpup.png

to use nautilus, as root

Quote:

sudo nautilus

gray53 · 07-31-2009, 03:17 PM

Why do you want to get the wallpapers with the terminal? Just curious.

Ineedwords1121 · 07-31-2009, 03:22 PM

I want to become more comfortable with using the terminal and i figured something easy like downloading wallpapers would help. I ended up just saving as and putting the wallpaper in pictures. Only thing is that i don't really know how to change the resolution. But ill figure it out... thanks guys