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Lively Wallpaper - Open Source alternative to Wallpaper Engine for animated wallpapers. (github.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Figured I'd share this project as I don't see many that know about it! (Only available for Windows)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Maybe because we Linux users never look at our desktop? 😅Dunno but would be nice to have

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

It's probably a combination of this and technical difficulties stemming from there being seemingly 20.000 Desktop Environments/Window Managers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you never heard of compiz? The Linux 3D window manager with burning windows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's a windows manager though. I was using that 20 years ago :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Used OS or how much you see the desktop doesn't matter. This is customization that feels good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's so interesting to me, because as someone thinking about switching over to Linux after playing around with it a bit, one of my main motivations is the ability to customize the desktop like crazy. Personally I like the minimal modern look, but I like that you can make it anything you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

True that. I pretty much only see my desktop on a fresh boot.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

I honestly see my wallpaper for about 0.01% of my screentime. Having a process hogging CPU to animate something I don't see if quite useless to me.

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