Storm
May 2, 2021, 11:31am
#1
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
This guide will show you how to have a Live Wallpaper on Manjaro Linux. ¹
Installation instructions:
Install mpv
from the official repositories by executing:
pamac install mpv
Install xwinwrap-git
after activating the AUR by executing:
pamac install xwinwrap-git
Setup
To set up a script that makes a Live Wallpaper possible:
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo nano Live.sh
Insert this command, while modifying the path to the video file you want to use:
xwinwrap -fs -fdt -ni -b -nf -- mpv -wid WID --no-audio --loop "/path/to/your/videofile"
Press Ctrl +X to exit and Y and Enter to save.
make the script executable:
sudo chmod +x Live.sh
Launch your new Live Wallpaper
To launch the Live Wallpaper automatically you need a .desktop
file in ~/.config/autostart
:
nano ~/.config/autostart/LiveWallpaper.desktop
Copy-paste this and remember to modify its path in Exec;
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=sh -c "path/to/Live.sh"
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=Live wallpaper
Again, press Ctrl +X to exit and Y and Enter to save.
Log out and log in again and if everything goes according to plan you should see your Live Wallpaper now!
Note 1: It have only been tested on Gnome stable, but should work on any DE or WM. RAM consumptions is around ~100MB RAM.
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Hi @Storm ,
Thank you very much for this. Might give it a try myself at some stage as well.
Please, please, please, see Tutorial Content Creation Guide and edit your post accordingly. I would, but am unable to edit posts that aren’t my own.
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Storm
May 2, 2021, 11:39am
#3
Okay :). I’m already editing
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Storm
May 2, 2021, 11:52am
#5
I’m not sure how to use <kbd>
command to illustrate keyboard buttons. I need to illustrate save and exit nano.
Command is not the right word. It’s actually markup, more specifically, HTML. That’s the tag for the <kbd>
element. And using it is easy. See <kbd>this</kbd>
will produce this
For example, if you wish to do Control + O: <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>O</kbd>
produces Ctrl + O
I hope this clears it up. At lease somewhat.
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lePAT
August 16, 2021, 10:36am
#8
Hey man, thanks for the idea and rundown.
I tried it using above scripts but the panel didn’t work properly on kde. After some searching, I found that there is a plugin to set video wallpapers from settings itself.
I’m using this wallpaper -
source: Aeolian Live Wallpaper | Live Wallpaper PC
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Storm
August 17, 2021, 7:18am
#9
I have tried KDE’s live wallpaper plugin. It’s nice, but it eats your RAM big time last I tried it.
lePAT
August 22, 2021, 10:43am
#10
It depends on the video I guess. Loads the entirely of it into ram.