xwinwrap
X11 Window in desktop enviroment background (by mmhobi7)
variety
Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems (by varietywalls)
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| xwinwrap | variety | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 57 | |
| 179 | 1,077 | |
| - | 2.2% | |
| 0.0 | 6.5 | |
| 7 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | Python | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xwinwrap
Posts with mentions or reviews of xwinwrap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-29.
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Is is possible to have a ST as a background in DWM?
xwinwrap allows you to map pretty much anything to the root window. Not sure if it works with st, but that's what i use to run mpv as my animated wallpaper so that might work for you
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Can you ran wallpaper engine on linux?
xwinwrap. livewallpaper...
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gpu-video-wallpaper 1.0
Removed the xwinwrap binary from the files and added it as a dependency. The installer will download it from this repository as part of the installation process.
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[BSPWM] Animated wallpaper (selector) and more...
xwinwrapand mpv (and if you use sxivlivewall you will need sxiv, ffmpeg and imagemagik but it is optional it's just to have a nice way to choose a wallpaper)
variety
Posts with mentions or reviews of variety.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
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Rotating Wallpaper
This! https://github.com/varietywalls/variety
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Variety & TWMs
Seems like other people using variety have had the same issue of \TypeError: gobject `variety+Util+VarietyMetadata' doesn't support property `path'``, reported here and here. Might still caused by using it with nix, idk, I'm no expert in how exactly nix handles python
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different wallpaper on startup or login
Want a simple way? Variety. :)
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[Linux4Noobs] Programme de moteur de fond d’écran pour Linux?
Variété
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In search of Gnome app: Random desktop wallpaper
https://peterlevi.com/variety/ variety
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Hey! I made a small python script to periodically change the desktop background on Ubuntu 20.04LTS
This is why I found variety which does the exact same thing though it also has some config options and the option to get different images from online sources.
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Wallpaper engine on Steam Deck Desktop Mode.
There's a similar native Linux program called Variety that is likely easier to set up and use.
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Trying to fix choppy slideshow transitions on gnome wallpapaer
Any reason you don't just use variety?
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Is there an alternative to wallpaper engine on Linux for gnome
Theres also numerous Gnome extensions for Wallpapers, and I have been using this http://peterlevi.com/variety
- How can i get variety wallpaper switcher to work?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xwinwrap and variety you can also consider the following projects:
dynamic-wallpaper - A simple bash script to set wallpapers according to current time, using cron job scheduler.
komorebi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux
gpu-video-wallpaper - Use your GPU for rendering low CPU usage video animated wallpaper.
bing-wallpaper - Bing.com wallpaper for OS X, and any Unix like desktop (eg. Ubuntu).
wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin - A kde wallpaper plugin integrating wallpaper engine
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
wallset - A wallpaper manager that makes it possible to put videos as wallpaper
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
paperview - A high performance X11 animated wallpaper setter
go-unsplash - Go Client for the Unsplash API
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
xwinwrap vs dynamic-wallpaper
variety vs komorebi
xwinwrap vs gpu-video-wallpaper
variety vs bing-wallpaper
xwinwrap vs wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
variety vs pywal
xwinwrap vs wallset
variety vs linux-wallpaperengine
xwinwrap vs paperview
variety vs go-unsplash
xwinwrap vs komorebi
variety vs oguri