Wallpaper Engine is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Variety Wallpaper Changer, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Wallpaper Engine and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Wallpaper Engine are Waywallen, Hidamari, mpvpaper and HydraPaper.
Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use. It can automatically download wallpapers from various online sources, allows rotating them on a regular interval or on demand, and provides easy to use ways to separate the great images...
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Dynamic wallpaper solution for Linux desktops focusing on Wayland compositors, providing animated and customizable backgrounds, script support, compatibility with KDE Plasma, Sway, and Hyprland, lightweight performance, and support for image, video, and HTML wallpapers.
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Flexible video wallpaper utility for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, enables looped video backgrounds via mpv, supports sway and others, multi-monitor setups, CLI configuration, aspect ratio options, startup integration, low resource usage, and local or remote files.
HydraPaper is a wallpaper manager, specifically designed to work around the lack of functionality of many desktop environments to set a different wallpaper for each monitor in a multi monitor setup. It accomplishes this by scaling and merging different wallpapers into a single...
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Layered WallPaper allows You to create multi-layered parallax wallpapers. Each layer moves with Your mouse cursor, creating beautiful parallax effect.
A lightweight app that displays animated wallpapers on Windows and Linux.
xlivebg is a live wallpaper framework, and collection of live wallpapers, for the X window system. xlivebg is independent of window managers and desktop environments, and should work with any of them, or even with no window manager at all.
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