variety
Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems (by varietywalls)
mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
variety | mpvpaper | |
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1,081 | 652 | |
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6.5 | 7.1 | |
9 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Python | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
variety
Posts with mentions or reviews of variety.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
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Rotating Wallpaper
This! https://github.com/varietywalls/variety
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Variety & TWMs
Seems like other people using variety have had the same issue of \TypeError: gobject `variety+Util+VarietyMetadata' doesn't support property `path'``, reported here and here. Might still caused by using it with nix, idk, I'm no expert in how exactly nix handles python
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different wallpaper on startup or login
Want a simple way? Variety. :)
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[Linux4Noobs] Programme de moteur de fond d’écran pour Linux?
Variété
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In search of Gnome app: Random desktop wallpaper
https://peterlevi.com/variety/ variety
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Hey! I made a small python script to periodically change the desktop background on Ubuntu 20.04LTS
This is why I found variety which does the exact same thing though it also has some config options and the option to get different images from online sources.
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Wallpaper engine on Steam Deck Desktop Mode.
There's a similar native Linux program called Variety that is likely easier to set up and use.
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Trying to fix choppy slideshow transitions on gnome wallpapaer
Any reason you don't just use variety?
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Is there an alternative to wallpaper engine on Linux for gnome
Theres also numerous Gnome extensions for Wallpapers, and I have been using this http://peterlevi.com/variety
- How can i get variety wallpaper switcher to work?
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 variety and mpvpaper you can also consider the following projects:
komorebi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux
xwinwrap - My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background.
bing-wallpaper - Bing.com wallpaper for OS X, and any Unix like desktop (eg. Ubuntu).
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
go-unsplash - Go Client for the Unsplash API
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors