mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
wlr-protocols
Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors) (by swaywm)
| mpvpaper | wlr-protocols | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 5 | |
| 658 | 117 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.1 | 2.4 | |
| 12 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | Makefile | |
| 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.
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.
wlr-protocols
Posts with mentions or reviews of wlr-protocols.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-01.
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Wofi and Bemenu windows don't appear in sway tree
Applications like Wofi or Waybar use the wlr-layer-shell protocol to control their windows. Sway does not manage these windows so they will not appear in the tree. If you are familiar with X11, its somewhat analogous to the override-redirect flag.
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c-api for wayland input-method-unstable-v1
Info on the libs which implement https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols would be appreciated aswell. 😊
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What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34
wlr- is the wlroots custom compositor protocol prefix. Protocols for wlroots are unlikely to be implemented by other compositors unless they are submitted to be standardized in wayland-protocols.
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Bar for Wayland compositor (but not Sway)
Have you tried looking at this list? (from the wlroots wiki).
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Sway apps list moved to github
If you want a full list of apps using wlr-protocols, there is https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/wiki. Let me know if anything's missing there.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mpvpaper and wlr-protocols 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
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
sway.wiki
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wtype - xdotool type for wayland
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
wlvncc - A Wayland Native VNC Client
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors