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hyprpaper
Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wallpaper utility for Hyprland with the ability to dynamically change wallpapers through sockets. It will work on all wlroots-based compositors, though.
Installation
AUR: yay -S hyprpaper-git
Manual:
git clone https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper
cd hyprpaper
make all
the output binary will be in ./build/, copy it to your PATH, e.g. /usr/bin
Usage
Hyprpaper is controlled by the config, like this:
~/.config/hypr/hyprpaper.conf
preload = /path/to/image.png
# .. more preloads
wallpaper = monitor,/path/to/image.png
# .. more monitors
Preload will tell Hyprland to load a particular image (supported formats: png, jpg, jpeg). Wallpaper will apply the wallpaper to the selected output (monitor is the monitor's name, easily can be retrieved with hyprctl monitors)
A Wallpaper cannot be applied without preloading. The config is not reloaded dynamically.
IPC
You can use hyprctl hyprpaper (if on Hyprland) to issue a keyword, for example
hyprctl hyprpaper wallpaper DP-1,~/Pictures/myepicpng.png
Unloading
If you use a lot of wallpapers, consider unloading those that you no longer need. This will mean you need to load them again if you wish to use them for a second time, but will free the memory used by the preloaded bitmap. (Usually 8 - 20MB, depending on the resolution)
You can issue a hyprctl hyprpaper unload [PATH] to do that.
For other compositors, the socket works like socket1 of Hyprland, and is located in /tmp/hypr/.hyprpaper.sock (this path only when Hyprland is not running!)