mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
wluma
Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents and ALS (by maximbaz)
| mpvpaper | wluma | |
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| 12 | 3 | |
| 658 | 556 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.1 | 6.1 | |
| 11 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | ISC License |
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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.
wluma
Posts with mentions or reviews of wluma.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-04.
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Something like gammy for F36 with Wayland?
Been using this https://github.com/Fushko/gammy/releases on F35. Now that Fedora defaults to Wayland on Nvidia cards i can't use it anymore (I could if i went back to X11 i suppose). I have tried https://github.com/maximbaz/wluma but it doesn't seem to work on fedora, even when compiling it myself. Anyone got a similar software that does work? I hate getting flashbanged when opening a website with a white background at 23:00.
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Extension to invert colors if average pixel color would otherwise be over 50% bright (Automatic "emergency" dark mode to protect eyes)
You could look into potentially porting https://github.com/maximbaz/wluma to use gnome protocols. That does a lot of heavy lifting to make analyzing overall color efficient and battery-friendly, and I don't *think* it would require a whole lot of modification to get it to work nicely with mutter
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Sway apps list moved to github
https://github.com/maximbaz/wluma too to get adaptive luminosity on a Wayland based laptop.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mpvpaper and wluma 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.
wlr-protocols - Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors)
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
brightnessctl - A program to read and control device brightness
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
sway.wiki
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
yofi - yofi is a minimalistic menu for wayland
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
wldash - Wayland launcher/dashboard