Waypaper is a graphical wallpaper manager that provides a convenient interface for choosing desktop backgrounds. Instead of rendering wallpapers itself, it acts as a front end for established wallpaper utilities. This makes it particularly useful with lightweight window managers and desktop setups that offer few built-in wallpaper controls.
The GTK interface displays wallpaper collections in a visual grid, allowing users to select an image without learning the commands for individual wallpaper setters. Waypaper can be configured through its interface, with additional options available for those who want finer control over its behaviour.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Works with Wayland backends including awww, swww, swaybg, hyprpaper, mpvpaper, gslapper and wallutils.
- Supports Xorg wallpaper setters including feh, xwallpaper and wallutils.
- Can target individual monitors or apply a wallpaper to all monitors.
- Offers fill, fit, stretch, centre and tile image placement modes.
- Displays animated GIF wallpapers with compatible backends including awww, mpvpaper and gslapper.
- Handles video wallpapers through mpvpaper or gslapper.
- Supports linux-wallpaperengine for animated wallpapers from Steam’s Wallpaper Engine.
- Includes a built-in slideshow that changes to randomly selected wallpapers at configurable intervals.
- Restores the previously selected background after restart and can resume an enabled slideshow.
- Offers command-line controls for random wallpaper selection, individual images, folders, monitors and backends.
- Supports sorting, subfolder browsing, hidden-file display and filtering for animated GIFs.
- Includes Vim-style keyboard shortcuts and a distraction-free Zen mode.
- Can run custom scripts after wallpaper changes, passing wallpaper and monitor information.
- Supports CSS interface customisation and caching for faster image loading.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and macOS.
Website: github.com/anufrievroman/waypaper
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Developer: Roman Anufriev
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Waypaper is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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