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Carla
Carla

Reputation: 1

How to run in atom a command in the terminal?

I'm doing a school project about changing my wallpaper from python and it works in the terminal perfectly but I need to do it from my text editor, atom, and it doesn't seem to work. I've tried rearranging the apostrophes as maybe it's that, but can't seem to make it work.

This works on the terminal perfectly:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of every desktop to ("/Users/carlaa/Desktop/DEVf/python/APODkata/apodimage.jpg" as POSIX file as alias)'

but from atom in says invalid syntax

from subprocess import call
subprocess.call(["osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set picture of every desktop to ("/Users/carlaa/Desktop/DEVf/python/APODkata/apodimage.jpg" as POSIX file as alias)'",shell=True])

Upvotes: 0

Views: 365

Answers (1)

Nelson Yeung
Nelson Yeung

Reputation: 3382

You need to escape those double quotes and remove subprocess:

from subprocess import call
call(["osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to set picture of every desktop to (\"/Users/carlaa/Desktop/DEVf/python/APODkata/apodimage.jpg\" as POSIX file as alias)'", shell=True])

Upvotes: 1

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