wallset
A wallpaper manager that makes it possible to put videos as wallpaper (by terroo)
variety
Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems (by varietywalls)
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wallset | variety | |
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7 | 57 | |
346 | 1,077 | |
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0.0 | 6.5 | |
6 months ago | 5 days ago | |
Shell | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | 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.
wallset
Posts with mentions or reviews of wallset.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-29.
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Can anyone tell me what's going on here? The system told me I needed to install ffmpeg but when I tried to install it; it told me I already had the latest version installed. (Linux Mint 21)
well, https://github.com/terroo/wallset no commits for over 2 years, lots of "open" issues..
- live wallpaper on xfce
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What's the best software for a dynamic wallpaper?
After a quick Google search the first three options seem to be covered reasonably well by wallset.
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So I made my first gif, How do I use it as my wallpaper?
I heard about wallset a long time ago, that might help: https://github.com/terroo/wallset
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Why is there no good live wallpaper software?
Check wallset
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Can you ran wallpaper engine on linux?
Wallset might work. Link to a DT video about wallset
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Any way to set a video wallpaper?
I stumbled upon Komorebi, but it only works on DEs, and i use a WM (Awesomewm), also i found this one: wallset but it literally doesnt work in any of the commands, either with an image or a video, and the developer isn't giving a f*ck to any of the issues.
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?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wallset and variety you can also consider the following projects:
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
komorebi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
bing-wallpaper - Bing.com wallpaper for OS X, and any Unix like desktop (eg. Ubuntu).
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
xwinwrap - X11 Window in desktop enviroment background
scripts - My scripts.
go-unsplash - Go Client for the Unsplash API
wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin - A kde wallpaper plugin integrating wallpaper engine
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors