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Wallpaper Setter

randwall – randomly changes the desktop wallpaper

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

randwall periodically fetches and sets random wallpapers from Wallhaven’s toplist

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Wallpaper Setter

SwayBG+ – advanced multi-monitor background manager for sway

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

SwayBG+ is a powerful, feature-rich background manager specifically designed for Sway window manager.

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Wallpaper Setter

23 Best Free and Open Source Wallpaper Setters

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Do you find your Linux desktop background rather mundane but have problems in finding attractive wallpapers?

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WallpaperDownloader

chwp – change background wallpaper from the command line

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chwp is a Rust-based tool to change the wallpaper without leaving the command-line.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: WSelector – wallpaper selector manager

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

WSelector is a modern GTK4/Adwaita application for browsing, downloading, and setting wallpapers. It’s written in Python.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Picture Of The Day – your daily wallpaper

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

Picture Of The Day is a GUI tool that grabs a picture of the day from a variety of sources and sets it as your wallpaper.

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Wallpaper Setter

mpvpaper – video wallpaper software

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as sway.

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Linux Candy: Hidamari is fun video wallpaper for Linux

April 25, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Reviews

Hidamari is a Python-based app that offers video wallpaper for Linux and a bit more besides. It’s free and open source software.

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battery-wallpaper – script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Fantascene – dynamic wallpaper

April 23, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews

Fantascene is a wallpaper changer. But it’s not a bog standard changer. It plays video wallpapers on your background.

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Wallpaper Setter

Superpaper – advanced multi monitor wallpaper manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Superpaper is an advanced multi monitor wallpaper manager. Superpaper is free and open source software written in Python.

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Wallpaper Setter

Komorebi – animated wallpaper manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Komorebi is a beautiful and customizable animated wallpaper manager for all Linux platforms.

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Wallpaper Setter

HydraPaper – GTK utility to set different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

HydraPaper is a GTK utility to set different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME. The utility also runs under MATE, Cinnamon, and Budgie.

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Wallpaper Setter

wpgtk – colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

wpgtk is a simple to use colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wall Changer – automatic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Wall Changer is an automatic wallpaper changer.

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Wallpaper Setter

pacwall – live wallpaper

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

pacwall changes your wallpaper to the dependency graph of installed with pacman packages.

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Wallpaper Setter

chwall – tiny automatic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Chwall is a tiny automatic wallpaper changer.

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Wallpaper Setter

flowy – lean privacy-preserving dynamic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

flowy is a lean, privacy-preserving dynamic wallpaper changer.

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Wallpaper Setter

LiveWallpaper – animated OpenGL wallpaper

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

LiveWallpaper replaces your current wallpaper with an animated wallpaper.

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Wallpaper Setter

Nitrogen – background browser and setter

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Nitrogen is software that lets you set the desktop background with a browser mode which allows you to choose and apply a desktop background.

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