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Linux Animated Wallpaper
Hello HN! I am running arch linux with a tiling WM. Right now I am just using feh to set a wallpaper. I would really like to play a video or GIF as my wallpaper just like feh does with images. I can't find anything that would work with something like i3 or other tiling window managers. Thoughts?
- fapjacks 10y agoI looked into this earlier this year with disappointing results. This seemed to be something that was popular a handful of years ago, but which just sort of trailed off. There are a couple of options out there for making "live" video wallpapers work, but they are really hit or miss, and I couldn't make any of the available options work. Using VLC was the most popular suggestion, and it "worked" but displayed the VLC title bar on the desktop, which is janky. There was some utility that I tried to install also, which only displayed a black square. It was however an ancient (5+ years old) utility with ancient dependencies.