Launching the application

There are different ways to launch the application Gradle has built in the previous step.

Use a shadowJar

You can find the shadowJar in build/libs/DynamicWallpaper-<version>-all.jar. It already contains all required libraries. Simply copy it to any location you like and double-click it to launch.

Use a distribution

Besides the shadowJar there are also distribution archives. Those also contain all libraries, but must be extracted before using the application.

You can find them in build/distributions/DynamicWallpaper-1.0.zip or build/distributions/DynamicWallpaper-1.0.tar. Just extract them to any directory you want.

After extracting them, just open the bin/-directory and then execute DynamicWallpaper.bat (for Windows) or DynamicWallpaper (for Unix).

Use Gradle

You can also ask Gradle to run the application:

Windows (in CMD)

gradlew.bat run

Unix (in bash)

chmod +x gradlew
./gradlew run

If you use this way, you don’t need to rebuild the program if the source changes. Building the program is included in this command.

• For information about controlling and configuring your wallpaper see User Interface