Wallpaper Engine Alternatives for Linux

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 eight of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Wallpaper Engine are Hidamari, Layered WallPaper, HydraPaper and LivePaper.

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  1. Variety Wallpaper Changer icon

    Variety Wallpaper Changer

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    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...

    46 Variety Wallpaper Changer alternatives

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    • Most users think Variety Wallpaper Changer is a great Wallpaper Engine alternative.

    • Variety Wallpaper Changer is the most popular Linux alternative to Wallpaper Engine.

    • Variety Wallpaper Changer is Free and Open SourceWallpaper Engine is Paid and Proprietary
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    Hidamari

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    Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python.

    17 Hidamari alternatives

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    Comments about Hidamari as an Alternative to Wallpaper Engine
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    This was the first LWPE I used for Linux, and I have to say there is nothing better I can find that is still FOSS. Luv it

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    • Almost everyone thinks Hidamari is a great Wallpaper Engine alternative.

    • Hidamari is Free and Open SourceWallpaper Engine is Paid and Proprietary
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    HydraPaper

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    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...

    22 HydraPaper alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    LivePaper

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    A lightweight app that displays animated wallpapers on Windows and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    xlivebg

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    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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  9. QuickWall

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    QuickWall was initialy launched as a wallpaper app that would set wallpapers directly from the commandline. Later due to a lot of requests from users , a theme option was added which uses pywal to generate themes from the wallpapers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  10. nitrogen

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    Background browser and setter for X windows.

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