mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
wlvncc
A Wayland Native VNC Client (by any1)
| mpvpaper | wlvncc | |
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| 12 | 2 | |
| 658 | 88 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.1 | 2.8 | |
| 12 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | C | |
| 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.
wlvncc
Posts with mentions or reviews of wlvncc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-07.
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What VNC options are there for Wayland/Sway?
You could try wlvncc.
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Sway apps list moved to github
Maybe wlvncc though the latter is WIP and something was off with keyboard handling when I tested it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mpvpaper and wlvncc 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.
sway.wiki
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
wlr-protocols - Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors)
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wldash - Wayland launcher/dashboard
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
wluma - Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents and ALS
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
qt-video-wlr - Qt pip-mode-like video player for wlroots-based wayland compositors.