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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
hudkit
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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/anko/hudkit
What are some alternatives?
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
paperview - A high performance X11 animated wallpaper setter
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
xsuspender - :eyes: :computer: :zzz: :battery: Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.
mpvpaper - A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
MangoHud - A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
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
xnotify - read notifications from stdin and pop them up on the screen
alttab - The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session