mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
wlpinyin
[WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME) (by xhebox)
| mpvpaper | wlpinyin | |
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| 12 | 1 | |
| 658 | 44 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.1 | 4.3 | |
| 11 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
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.
wlpinyin
Posts with mentions or reviews of wlpinyin.
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Sway apps list moved to github
A bunch of IMEs that I'm not sure how much they are wlroot specific or will also work with other compositor. I'm guessing they're all a WIP because the patches for supporting the relevant extensions in wlroots and Sway are not merged yet. hopefully soon. Should we add them to the list? maybe with a WIP tag? These are those I know of: wlpinyin, wlhangul, anthywl,wlanthy, and kime.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mpvpaper and wlpinyin you can also consider the following projects:
xwinwrap - My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background.
wluma - Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents and ALS
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
wldash - Wayland launcher/dashboard
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
sway.wiki
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
brillo - Control the brightness of backlight and keyboard LED devices on Linux. (read only mirror)
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
variety - Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems
qt-video-wlr - Qt pip-mode-like video player for wlroots-based wayland compositors.