mpvpaper VS linux-wallpaperengine

It should be possible to replace Hidamari with mpvpaper on Wayland.

For mp4 you can use mpvpaper, works fine!

Linux Wayland folks can use these with mpvpaper, works like a charm, just make sure to have all mpv deps (including devel) installed.

AFAIK swaybg cannot display animated GIFs, but came across this post, which mentions these projects: - oguri - MPVPaper

Perhaps reading through the code for mpvpaper might provide some pointers: https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper

mpvpaper on the other hand is an entire media player, so it should handle anything lol

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There is a clone in development: https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine

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"