Wallrus is a user-friendly GNOME (GTK4) application for generating colorful abstract wallpapers based on different patterns and effects.
For those who prefer minimalist, colorful wallpapers and like changing colors once in a while to keep things fresh.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- 5 shader presets — Bars, Circle, Plasma, Waves, and Terrain, each with dedicated parameters (angle, scale, time scrub, center position).
- Hundreds of bundled palette images across several categories (cold, dark, fall, gradient, light, pastel, retro, sunset, warm, winter, etc.)
- Custom palettes — tweak individual colors with the color pickers, then save your palette for later.
- Saved palettes appear in a “Custom” category and can be deleted at any time.
- Blend control — go from hard flag-like stripes to fully smooth gradients.
- Effects — Distortion, lighting, and noise.
- Export — PNG or JPEG at 1080p, 1440p, or 4K via a native save dialog (defaults to your
- Pictures folder; resolution auto-detected from your display).
- Set as wallpaper — uses the XDG Desktop Portal to set your GNOME wallpaper.
- Keyboard shortcuts — Ctrl+E (export), Ctrl+Shift+W (set as wallpaper).
Website: github.com/megakode/wallrus
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Developer: Peter Boné
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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