Icebg is a lightweight wallpaper setter for Wayland compositors. It uses the Wayland layer-shell protocol to display an image as a background surface, providing a relatively simple way to manage static desktop wallpapers.
The application is designed for compositors based on wlroots and Smithay, including Hyprland, Sway and Niri. It is not intended for X11 desktop sessions.
Icebg uses the iced graphical framework for rendering and stores its configuration in a RON file. The configuration specifies the wallpaper image, display target and how the image should fit the screen.
One of its useful capabilities is hot-reloading. Icebg can monitor its configuration file and update the displayed wallpaper when settings change, without requiring the user to restart the program manually.
The software is particularly suited to users who prefer to configure their desktop through text files and compositor startup commands instead of using a graphical wallpaper management application.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Displays static wallpapers using the Wayland layer-shell protocol.
- Designed for wlroots and Smithay compositors, including Hyprland, Sway and Niri.
- Creates a background layer surface for displaying wallpaper images.
- Uses the iced framework for rendering.
- Supports targeting a specific monitor by its output name.
- Can use the active display when no monitor is explicitly configured.
- Reads wallpaper settings from a RON configuration file.
- Automatically creates a default configuration file on first launch.
- Watches configuration changes and reloads the wallpaper without restarting.
- Provides a configurable polling interval for detecting configuration changes.
- Offers Contain mode to fit an image within the screen without cropping.
- Provides Cover mode to fill the screen while allowing cropping.
- Supports Fill mode for stretching images across the display.
- Includes None mode for displaying images without scaling.
- Provides ScaleDown mode to reduce oversized images without enlarging smaller images.
- Can be started automatically through compositor startup configuration.
Website: github.com/HaruNashii/Icebg
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Developer: HaruNashii
License: MIT License
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