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oguri
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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?
xwinwrap
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Playing around with 'Video Wallpaper' & 'xwinwrap + gifview', just a 'demo mode' for my own learning. Together they use close to 15% of my (old Phenom II 1100T) cpu. The screen recorder used much more.
xwinwrap
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Live wallpaper software that works with window managers
Use xwinwrap and your player of choice.
- Set a program instead of a wallpaper as a background
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Is it possible to make your desktop a terminal?
Kinda, you can use xwinwrap to set a terminal emulator as background.
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Is it possible to have a browser tab as desktop background?
Exactly what you asked for but no one posted it yet: https://github.com/ujjwal96/xwinwrap
- how to i get animated wallpapers on linux
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Sticky window on behind other windows
If you need that application specifically, take a look at xwinwrap: https://github.com/ujjwal96/xwinwrap this draws applications on your root window (basically the "desktop").
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Animated Wallpaper
xwinwrap
What are some alternatives?
swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
variety - Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
wlanthy - Experimental, simple Wayland-native Japanese input method
azpainter - Full color painting software for Unix-like systems for illustration drawing. This is un-official little fixed repository for package maintainers of image editor AzPainter (based on "mlib" toolkit). Official repository - http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/azpainter.html
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
xnotify - read notifications from stdin and pop them up on the screen