variety
Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems (by varietywalls)
paperview
A high performance X11 animated wallpaper setter (by glouw)
variety | paperview | |
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57 | 10 | |
1,088 | 1,422 | |
2.0% | - | |
6.5 | 0.0 | |
27 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
Python | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT 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.
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?
paperview
Posts with mentions or reviews of paperview.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-29.
- Paperview
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Is there a standard for procedurally animated wallpaper on Linux?
https://github.com/glouw/paperview you might want to try paperview.
- Is is possible to have a ST as a background in DWM?
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ST transparency without composite manager
Is there any way to get transparent st terminals without using a composite manager like the alpha patch requires? I've found a tool to set gifs as backgrounds (https://github.com/glouw/paperview) but it can't run while a composite manager is running as they both try to write to the root X11 window and so when I use it I can't see the animated background through st which defeats the point.
- [DWM] How do I set a gif as wallpaper?
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Can you ran wallpaper engine on linux?
No, wallpaper engine doesn't work on linux and as far as i know they don't have plans for a linux version. As for the alternative, there is this https://github.com/glouw/paperview but i haven't used it so i don't know how good it works.
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Any way to set a video wallpaper?
There is also paperview (although not in the void repo) that uses BMP files from a folder to display an animated background. (Converting a video to BMP images can be done with ffmpeg.)
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[i3] First rice + poorly written Assebly code
try to install it form here https://github.com/glouw/paperview
- [OC] Introducing Tuxi. A simple bash program I wrote for getting answers of all my questions instantly. (Details in comment)
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[dwm]
You can try paperview
What are some alternatives?
When comparing variety and paperview you can also consider the following projects:
komorebi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux
bing-wallpaper - Bing.com wallpaper for OS X, and any Unix like desktop (eg. Ubuntu).
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
xwinwrap - X11 Window in desktop enviroment background
tuxi - Tuxi is a cli assistant. Get answers of your questions instantly.
go-unsplash - Go Client for the Unsplash API
stalonetray - STAnd aLONE TRAY (notification area) implementation for X11
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
gxkb - 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇱🇹 🇪🇪 X11 keyboard indicator and switcher