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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] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's probably more complicated precisely because of the multiple desktop environments and X11 set up. Windows you can make one tool to work on all desktops.

You'd probably need systems for KDE and Gnome, etc. Perhaps Wayland may make this simpler?

Ultimately I suspect it's just not a priority when the complexity is factored in. An animated desktop is pretty to look at but probably not a project getting lots of devs interested in if it's so complex to implement and maintain at present?

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

I haven't played with this too much, but I'm reasonably confident you only need an X11 and a Wayland implementation. Mplayer / mpv can play on "rootwin" on X11. For Wayland I think it's a layer.