hyprland-wiki/pages/Useful Utilities/Wallpapers.md

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Launch your wallpaper utility with `exec-once=`.

## hyprpaper

Straight from our oven, `hyprpaper` is a wallpaper utility from the Hypr
Development team. See its usage and config by following the README on the
[GitHub Page](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper).

## swaybg

Great utility if all you want is one simple static wallpaper that will never
change, and don't want to make a config file. Get it
[here](https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg).

## wpaperd

A slightly more advanced wallpaper daemon with automatic wallpaper changing options
and other fancy stuff. [GitHub](https://github.com/danyspin97/wpaperd).

## mpvpaper

A neat mpv wrapper to play a video as your wallpaper.
[GitHub](https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper).

## swww

An efficient animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland, controlled at runtime, which
means you can change wallpapers without even needing to restart.
[GitHub](https://github.com/Horus645/swww)

## waypaper

GUI wallpaper manager that allows to visually choose the static or animated
wallpapers, and supports `swaybg` and `swww` as backends on wayland.
[GitHub](https://github.com/anufrievroman/waypaper)