oguri
A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors (by vilhalmer)
patches
Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu (by bakkeby)
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oguri
Posts with mentions or reviews of oguri.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.
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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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swww - A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes
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.
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wpaperd, wallpaper daemon for Wayland
there's oguri, which can do gifs - and is just a great wallpaper solution all around.
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Any alternatives to Wallpaper engine on Linux?
On Wayland, there's oguri and glpaper.
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swaybg alone eating up almost 500mb ram for some reason! are there any alternatives?
Here is another wallpaper tool for sway: https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri
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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.
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is X / X11 really dying?
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.
- Animated/Video wallpapers?
patches
Posts with mentions or reviews of patches.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.
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patch to center tiled windows on the stack
It would be possible to have gaps by default without wasting space, they would just be smaller. Current gaps patches waste even more space than 'resizehints = 0'. This patch appears to be a big challenge, but it would be very interesting to see it done. Something like the centered_size_hints patch but with better space/cpu usage would already be great.
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Anysize leaving gaps in st
I made this patch after that post for reference: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/wiki/anysize-simple
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How can you set the st geometry offset relative to the screen size as a dwm shortcut
I'd recommend that you have a look at the floatrules patch and alternatively if you need percentages then I have another patch called floatpos.
- Make the focusstack feature avoid a certain program.
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tag.restore and tag.noempty
As for 1. you may want to consider toggletag which is a one-line patch which makes it so that when you do MOD+1 to move to tag 1 and if you do MOD+1 again then it moves you back to the previous tag (5 in the example case).
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Patch to improve the zoom function
I believe the zoomswap, stacker and restrictfocus patches could help solving this problem. The functions needed to be changed probably are zoom and maybe pop. I tried to figure it out, but couldn't since I don't know C right now. But hopefully the information on this post can help, so one can fix it if he can and wants to.
- patch to separate focus between master and stack areas
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How do you set the width of dmenu to the screen width after application of the xyw patch?
You may also want to consider applying the barpadding patch for dwm into dmenu, this is easier to do than it sounds. I created an example patch a while back: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/wiki/barpadding
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alpha patch makes my dwm doesn't starting
It's difficult to make alpha and systray patches sing together. Use bakkeby patch that does them both: https://github.com/bakkeby/patches/blob/master/dwm/dwm-alpha-systray-6.3_full.diff
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How do I change multi-monitor tag behaviour
I had an example patch for that: dwm-desktop-6.3.diff
What are some alternatives?
When comparing oguri and patches 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.
dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time
swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
chadwm - Making dwm as beautiful as possible!
variety - Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems
dwm-single-tagset-6.2 - single-tagset patch for dwm 6.2
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
dwm-directionalfocus - Adding directional focus to dwm
mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.
wlanthy - Experimental, simple Wayland-native Japanese input method
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