Some days ago i was wondering how to display random comic strips on my Mac OS X Desktop.

Before we’re getting started a short warning:

The following solution is far away from perfect and somehow “dirty”

But who cares about perfect … it’s about getting it done

As a big fan of Geektool it is pretty clear that i want to use its Picture function to display the comic strip on the desktop. Unfortunaly Geektool can only handle a full image path – so we can NOT work with wildcards

So we have the following tasks

• Download selected comic strips from an online source – for sure automated
• Select random image – using a simple .sh script executed using Geektool
• Display random image – using the picture function of Geektool

Ready ?

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