I am looking for programs to put animated wallpapers on Linux, the ones I know for now are: Xwinwrap, paperview and komorebi. If you know of another program that can do this, leave it in the comments so that others can read it and give their opinion about the program.
I use this Wallpaper Engine KDE plugin.
You can download wallpapers from the Wallpaper Engine Steam workshop and load them using the plugin instead.
That’s genius, thanks for the recommendation!
Are there any programs that can animate a cat to chase my mouse across the desktop? Or a guy who runs up window borders and tries to wrangle the mouse?
Are there any programs that can animate a cat to chase my mouse across the desktop?
oneko
PSA: here is the link
I tried oneko for a day and wow… not my thing. Constant distraction and I didn’t get much done that day, lol. Not recommended for the work computer at least.
I agree with everything you say but it’s there for those who are interested.
Bonzi Buddy
https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper only for KDE though
There’s a KDE plugin for Wallpaper Engine
https://store.kde.org/p/1475528
Github: https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
I’m looking for something more universal, that works in any DE or WM and that doesn’t necessarily have to depend on kde plasma
Plasma supports animated wallpapers out of the box. No need for third party plugins that rely on proprietary software like Wallpaper Engine.
My top choice: KDE Plasma Wayland.
mpvpaper if you use wayland compositors It doesn’t work on nvidia hyprland, but nice work on intel igpu
I use mpvpaper on sway and cosmic
Pretty sure I did with mplayer and/or feh but it was years ago
Apparently it can be done with mplayer, I haven’t tried it yet, but later I’ll see if it works, and if so, I’ll stick with that option
I set mpv as the root window which worked well. I stopped using it a while back, but if you are interested, I could dig up the simple script for you (literally one or two lines iirc).
Ok, give me the script, please
Sure. If you are using an nvidia optimus laptop, you should also add __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia at the start of the last line when running in hybrid mode to run mpv on the dgpu. You should have a file at ~/.wallpaperrc that contains
wallpaper_playlist: /path/to/mpv/playlist. You may want to add this script to your startup sequence via your wm/de.#!/bin/sh WALLPAPER_PLAYLIST=$(cat ~/.wallpaperrc | grep -v '^\w*#' | grep 'wallpaper_playlist' | sed "s/wallpaper_playlist: //") xwinwrap -g 1920x1080 -ov -- mpv -wid WID --no-osc --no-audio --loop-playlist --shuffle --playlist=$WALLPAPER_PLAYLISTHope this helps!
swww (wayland only)
never tried it (i don’t use animated wallpapers) but it seems pretty good, not sure if it works on non-wlroots like KDE or GNOME
I use feh for wallpapers (Obviously not animated), but I made this post anyway to see what kind of programs there are
After seeing this thread, and the Linux wallpaper engine repo, I think I’m gonna boot into Windows and record wallpapers I like as videos, then set them as backgrounds in linux. I’m gonna be on x11 until cinnamon updates to waylan
