wlr-protocols VS mpvpaper

Applications like Wofi or Waybar use the wlr-layer-shell protocol to control their windows. Sway does not manage these windows so they will not appear in the tree. If you are familiar with X11, its somewhat analogous to the override-redirect flag.

Info on the libs which implement https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols would be appreciated aswell. 😊

wlr- is the wlroots custom compositor protocol prefix. Protocols for wlroots are unlikely to be implemented by other compositors unless they are submitted to be standardized in wayland-protocols.

Have you tried looking at this list? (from the wlroots wiki).

If you want a full list of apps using wlr-protocols, there is https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/wiki. Let me know if anything's missing there.

It should be possible to replace Hidamari with mpvpaper on Wayland.

For mp4 you can use mpvpaper, works fine!

Linux Wayland folks can use these with mpvpaper, works like a charm, just make sure to have all mpv deps (including devel) installed.

AFAIK swaybg cannot display animated GIFs, but came across this post, which mentions these projects: - oguri - MPVPaper

Perhaps reading through the code for mpvpaper might provide some pointers: https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper

mpvpaper on the other hand is an entire media player, so it should handle anything lol

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.