Running on Linux with a GUI (Wayland and X11)

[SanX]

This isn't a post requesting a port to Linux, this is a post about programs that make possible running a good bunch of wallpapers from WE on linux with a gui.

I've made a reddit post talking about this with a showcase of how it works.
Basically you need to use the well known https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine to run the wallpapers, but a couple of days ago I found that some people are developing GUIs for it, and after trying various GUIs I think that this is the best one by far https://github.com/AzPepoze/linux-wallpaperengine-gui it has an amazing interface, support for multiple monitors, settings to configure everything and the most incredible thing is that you have all the properties from the wallpaper as if it was the original WE with toggles for boolean values, etc.

It's an incredible project that I want to give visibility and help anyone that like myself wanted this for so long but didn't know it existed.

If you wanna see the full explanation and the showcase visit the reddit post.

[arcade_portal32]

I will probably look into this tomorrow, otherwise I have been using the "Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn" from the KDE Wallpaper Plugins center. I had the catsout plugin working when I was using Kubuntu, but no luck even running a community Qt6 version of it since I moved to Fedora, it just crashes Plasma the moment I select a wallpaper. The Smart Video plugin works great, issues imo is finding good background videos for a 3440x1440p ultra-wide monitor. I can hope one day Wallpaper Engine supports at least KDE, which is probably the most popular Desktop in Linux, and is what Valves new hardware uses, but that still feels too hopeful. I understand it is a lot of work, and I got my use out of it either way. I wish you could search for wallpapers in the Wallpaper Engine Workshop by just if it is only a Video File.. so I can extract that file and use it in Smart Video lol.

[SanX]

Originally posted by arcade_portal32:

I will probably look into this tomorrow, otherwise I have been using the "Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn" from the KDE Wallpaper Plugins center. I had the catsout plugin working when I was using Kubuntu, but no luck even running a community Qt6 version of it since I moved to Fedora, it just crashes Plasma the moment I select a wallpaper. The Smart Video plugin works great, issues imo is finding good background videos for a 3440x1440p ultra-wide monitor. I can hope one day Wallpaper Engine supports at least KDE, which is probably the most popular Desktop in Linux, and is what Valves new hardware uses, but that still feels too hopeful. I understand it is a lot of work, and I got my use out of it either way. I wish you could search for wallpapers in the Wallpaper Engine Workshop by just if it is only a Video File.. so I can extract that file and use it in Smart Video lol.

Don't understant exactly what you meant on the last phrase but you can search only wallpapers that are videos from the workshop, download them and they are just a .mp4 file that you could use with your plugin, you just go to where you have steam installed then steamapps/workshop/content/431960 and there you have folders with numbers that are the wallpaper's id that you can see from the top left corner when you enter a workshop item, the last set of numbers from the url are the wallpaper id, you just enter to the folder with said numbers and you should have a .mp4 file

[TwinShadow]

That's pretty neat. I star'd the repo for now so I can get back to it at some point. It was a chore and a half trying to get WPE to work on CachyOS; I managed to do it somehow on the laptop I have, but was not able to accomplish it on the desktop (and managed to break Plasma at one point...) so far.

I'm waiting to get the replacement AIO to try again on the AMD system I have (since I'm using Intel currently) and reinstall CachyOS on the NVME using the AMD drivers.