mpvpaper VS oguri

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.

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

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.

there's oguri, which can do gifs - and is just a great wallpaper solution all around.

On Wayland, there's oguri and glpaper.

Here is another wallpaper tool for sway: https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri

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.

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.