Waypaper

GUI wallpaper setter for Wayland and Xorg window managers. It works as a frontend for popular wallpaper backends like swaybg, swww, wallutils, hyprpaper and feh. See details in the documentation.

Features

• Vim keys
• Support for GIF animations (with swww or mpvpaper)
• Support for videos (with mpvpaper)
• Support for multiple monitors (with swww or swaybg or hyprpaper or mpvpaper)
• Works on Wayland (with swww or swaybg or hyprpaper or wallutils or mpvpaper)
• Works on Xorg (with feh or wallutils)
• Restores wallpaper at launch of your WM
• Caching for fast loading

Installation

You need to install at least one of the backends and Waypaper, which works as a frontend.

1. Install a backend

Install a preferred backend from your package manager: swww or swaybg or hyprpaper on Wayland or feh on Xorg or mpvpaper or wallutils on both.

2. Install Waypaper

Waypaper is available as a package in different repositories listed below:

On all distributions

pipx install waypaper

If pipx is not found, you first need to install pipx from your package manager, it's sometimes called python-pipx.

On Arch-based distributions

yay -S waypaper or yay -S waypaper-git

The waypaper and waypaper-git packages are available in AUR, thanks to metak. Please upvote to support the project.

On NixOS

The waypaper package is available thanks to Basil Keeler.

On OpenSUSE

Users of OpenSUSE reported issue with installation via pipx install waypaper. This might be resolved by installing the python311-pycairo-devel package.

On Fedora

Waypaper is available in an external repository owned by Solopasha. You can add this repository as sudo dnf copr enable solopasha/hyprland and install as sudo dnf install waypaper.

Dependencies

• swww or swaybg or feh or wallutils or hyprpaper or mpvpaper
• gobject python library (it might be called python-gobject or python3-gi or python3-gobject in your package manager.)
• python-importlib_metadata
• python-platformdirs

Usage

waypaper command will run GUI application.

Options

To restore your wallpaper at launch, add waypaper --restore to your startup config.

See more details on user arguments in the documentation.

Configuration

See configuration details in the documentation.

Keybindings

See list of keybindings in the documentation.

Troubleshooting

See typical problems explained in the documentation

Contribution and support

Feel free to propose PR and suggest the improvements. I'll highly appreciate help with packaging for various distributions. If you wish to contribute with translation into your language, please see the translations.py file.

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