linux-wallpaperengine
Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux! (by Almamu)
mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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linux-wallpaperengine
Posts with mentions or reviews of linux-wallpaperengine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-22.
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wallpaper engine on linux?
If you use the KDE desktop environment you can use the following repo: wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin There is a generic repo but for me it never worked, but I'll leave it here anyways: linux-wallpaperengine
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Run Desktop - Plasma in root window?
And before people start saying I can use things like feh or xwinwrap to set the desktop, that won't work as my use case is to use this plugin to run wallpaper engine in kde. There are alternatives like this but they don't render all the effects so its not as pretty.
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Wallpaper engine on linux
Pop os use Gnome so it would not work. There is this work in progress project working on this problem. https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine
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How to stop Nautilis/Gnome from drawing the wallpaper
Im attempting to use https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine and in order for it run as a desktop wallpaper I have to stop anything else from drawing the wallpaper. Ive done some googling around and am unable to find anything regarding this, so I figured what better place than here to ask.
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Can I install Wallpaper Engine on ubuntu 20.04?
Wallpaper Engine doesn't work on Linux. but if you like to Tinker, there is this project https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine which aims to provide a compatible version. But if you don't really know how to Tinker with Linux, you might need help or might not want to try it.
- how to i get animated wallpapers on linux
- Will Pop!_OS ever do an officially KDE flavor or will it forever be GNOME-only? Would you like Pop!_OS to do a KDE Flavor? (Poll)
- Can you ran wallpaper engine on linux?
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Is there any way to get Wallpaper Engine running (not downloading live-animated wallpapers, just the program itself) and anything similar for cursors for Linux?
There is a clone in development: https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine
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Wallpaper Engine on Steam Deck
There might be a back-end way to make it work, but I'm not sure. For instance, this program is "an attempt to make wallpaper engine wallpapers compatible with Linux"
mpvpaper
Posts with mentions or reviews of mpvpaper.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
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Use Wallpaper engine wallpapers on Linux
It should be possible to replace Hidamari with mpvpaper on Wayland.
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Any recommendations if I want live wallpapers?
For mp4 you can use mpvpaper, works fine!
- mpvpaper 1.3 released with 2 new features
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My collection of 8 Bit Live Wallpaper GIFs [1920x1080]
Linux Wayland folks can use these with mpvpaper, works like a charm, just make sure to have all mpv deps (including devel) installed.
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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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How/Is it possible to embed an application into the background?
Perhaps reading through the code for mpvpaper might provide some pointers: https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper
- how to i get animated wallpapers on linux
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wpaperd, wallpaper daemon for Wayland
mpvpaper on the other hand is an entire media player, so it should handle anything lol
- mpvpaper 1.2 released with minor improvements
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing linux-wallpaperengine and mpvpaper you can also consider the following projects:
wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin - A kde wallpaper plugin integrating wallpaper engine
xwinwrap - My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
wallset - A wallpaper manager that makes it possible to put videos as wallpaper
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
variety - Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
komorebi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux
linux-wallpaperengine vs wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
mpvpaper vs xwinwrap
linux-wallpaperengine vs wayfire
mpvpaper vs wlpinyin
linux-wallpaperengine vs wallset
mpvpaper vs sway
linux-wallpaperengine vs xwinwrap
mpvpaper vs foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif
linux-wallpaperengine vs variety
mpvpaper vs oguri
linux-wallpaperengine vs komorebi
mpvpaper vs variety