oguri
A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors (by vilhalmer)
mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
| oguri | mpvpaper | |
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| 8 | 12 | |
| 270 | 652 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.1 | |
| over 1 year ago | 3 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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?
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing oguri and mpvpaper 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.
swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
variety - Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
wlanthy - Experimental, simple Wayland-native Japanese input method
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library