Icebg is a lightweight wallpaper setter for Wayland compositors.
Written in Rust, it uses iced and the layer-shell protocol to display a wallpaper as a background surface, with support for hot-reloading configuration changes and targeting a specific monitor. The project is aimed at users who want a small, compositor-friendly wallpaper tool rather than a full wallpaper daemon.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Sets wallpapers using the Wayland layer-shell protocol.
- Designed for wlroots and smithay-based compositors such as Hyprland, Sway, and Niri.
- Supports hot-reloading when the configuration file changes.
- Offers per-monitor wallpaper targeting.
- Provides multiple image fit modes including Contain, Cover, Fill, None, and ScaleDown.
- Uses a simple RON configuration file.
Website: github.com/HaruNashii/Icebg
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Developer: HaruNashii
License: MIT License
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