lazywal-cli

This is a minimalistic animated wallpaper manager for Linux and probably BSD. Was created for me to see if I could do it and to learn how to create AUR packages.

Setup

Dependencies:

• mpv
• xwinwrap (aur)

Universal install

make install

Arch Linux AUR

yay -S lazywal-cli

Usage

For help

lazywal-cli -h

Setting a video as a wallpaper

lazywal-cli [filename]

Restoring last wallpaper

lazywal-cli -r

Setting wallpaper for a specific monitor. This one is a bit more complicated, so I have a couple examples.

• Ex1: External monitor in the right of main monitor

from xrandr,

HDMI-1-0 connected 2560x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 673mm x 284mm

So we use,

lazywal-cli -D 2560x1080+1920 animation.gif

• Ex2: Render in the primary display

From xrandr,

eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0

So we use,

lazywal-cli -D 1920x1080 animation.gif

• DEFAULT: To render in both screens the same gif image (not mirrored)

lazywal-cli animation.gif

Tested DEs, WMs

Works:

• GNOME 3 (mutter)
• Openbox
• XFCE
• ratpoison
• DWM
• xmonad

Works, but has weird quirks:

• BSPWM
• i3

Doesn't work (for now):

TODO: test more