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Waywallen

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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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Platforms

  • Linux  Supports, KDE Plasma, GNOME, Hyprland, Niri, and Sway.
  • KDE Plasma
8likes
1comment
0articles

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Video Wallpaper
  3.  Live Wallpapers
  4.  User contributed content

Waywallen News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent activities

  • dante920 and pastel_p1xel_punK liked Waywallen
  • Kaiyan reviewed Waywallen  

    I think it bridges a gap between windows and Linux I wasn't really searching for. It made me really happy to have my wallpaper engine wallpapers, and for it to frankly just work. I've had some issues with it on my friend's computer, NVIDIA GPU. This comment on the issue in Github helped, though it didn't fix it, which we're waiting on a bug patch for that completed fix.

    User, twinaccount: "This happens because when opening something important, kwin opens a new descriptor, which exceeds the...

  • Sublimeartsio, namdx1987, e-braun and L01D liked Waywallen
  • anastasia_pollsar liked Waywallen
  • Maoholguin updated Waywallen
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    Maoholguin added Waywallen as alternative to Sucrose Wallpaper Engine, Wallper, WinDynamicDesktop and Vivid Walls + 2 similar activities

Waywallen information

  • Developed by

    CN flaghypengw
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    9 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Photos & Graphics

GitHub repository

  •  262 Stars
  •  17 Forks
  •  14 Open Issues
  •   Updated  
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Waywallen, and it has gotten 8 likes

Waywallen was added to AlternativeTo by Kaiyan on and this page was last updated .

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Kaiyan
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I think it bridges a gap between windows and Linux I wasn't really searching for. It made me really happy to have my wallpaper engine wallpapers, and for it to frankly just work. I've had some issues with it on my friend's computer, NVIDIA GPU. This comment on the issue in Github helped, though it didn't fix it, which we're waiting on a bug patch for that completed fix.

User, twinaccount: "This happens because when opening something important, kwin opens a new descriptor, which exceeds the limit and kills the plasmashell process. The default limit of 1024 FDs is very low; it fills up in about 34 seconds (depending on fps). As a temporary solution, you can raise the limit to 65,536 descriptors and also reduce the fps, which will slow down crashes (30 fps will give about 36 minutes, and 20 fps will give about 54 minutes). To do this, create a file in the directory ~/.config/systemd/user/plasma-plasmashell.service.d/limits.conf and add

[Service] LimitNOFILE=65536 That's all I can help with. (Do I need to apologize if I said something wrong or if this doesn't help?)"

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What is Waywallen?

Waywallen is a dynamic wallpaper solution for Linux desktops. It started life as a Wallpaper Engine plugin for KDE.

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