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hello-wayland
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Image in C
I first saw the trick at https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland
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How does a Wayland compositor and client communicate?
hello-wayland and tinywl are simple wayland client and server respectively. Also wayland-book
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How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One
You think this is bad? Just look at a native Wayland "Hello World" client [1]. This doesn't even print hello world. You have to do the text rendering yourself. And you need at least 500 more lines to implement the equivalent to a simple XGetImage() call.
1.: https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland/blob/master/main.c
- How to link Wayland header files in C?
oguri
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Smooth slideshow wallpaper
AFAIK swaybg cannot display animated GIFs, but came across this post, which mentions these projects: - oguri - MPVPaper
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swww - A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes
It supports a bunch of file types (anything the image crate supports), AND animated gifs. Regarding those, one of the big motivations for making this was oguri's insane memory usage when displaying animations. For reference, for me, oguri used up a little over 8 GIGABYTES OF RAM for a 450 frames gif, while swww is currently using around 49 megabytes for the same file.
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wpaperd, wallpaper daemon for Wayland
there's oguri, which can do gifs - and is just a great wallpaper solution all around.
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Any alternatives to Wallpaper engine on Linux?
On Wayland, there's oguri and glpaper.
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swaybg alone eating up almost 500mb ram for some reason! are there any alternatives?
Here is another wallpaper tool for sway: https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri
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Any digital desktop clock?
You could probably hack something together with a daemon that generates a wallpaper with the time on it and sends e.g. swaysmg output * background /path/to/bg fill at the correct intervals, but I haven’t tried. Alternatively could hack on https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri or https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper which do animated backgrounds.
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is X / X11 really dying?
KDE had a plugin for animated wallpaper that would freeze when a window is displayed. That thing took twice as much resources as Oguri running full-time in the background.
- Animated/Video wallpapers?
What are some alternatives?
hello_imgui - Hello, Dear ImGui: unleash your creativity in app development and prototyping
xwinwrap - My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background.
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
variety - Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
wlanthy - Experimental, simple Wayland-native Japanese input method
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library