xwinwrap
My fork of xwinwrap. Xwinwrap allows you to stick most of the apps to your desktop background. (by ujjwal96)
mpvpaper
A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors. (by GhostNaN)
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xwinwrap
Posts with mentions or reviews of xwinwrap.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-29.
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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
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 xwinwrap and mpvpaper you can also consider the following projects:
oguri - A very nice animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors
wlpinyin - [WIP] experimental Chinese wayland Input method (IME)
conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
linux-wallpaperengine - Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!
foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif - just a loop who set wallpaper for display gif, support transparency
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
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
variety - Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems