Hey y'all

i have a question to the Linux folks,

some of you may probably know a program called Komorebi. It replaces the Desktop and makes it animated and stuff like that (similar to Wallpaper Engine for Windows)

are there alternative tools, that do a similar job?

The Program seems to cause problems on my system, and the github page is dead for 3 years. Looks like the devs abandoned it, which is a shame.

I've heard of people just spawning mpv to draw their backgrounds lol

Search found this: https://github.com/terroo/wallset

Did you mean something like that?

@synemeup it goes into the right direction. Komorebi does a bit more though. You could layer different things over each other, for example a video as bottom layer and an image on top, plus the time in custom font, size, position and color ontop of that.

@synemeup this is my current wallpaper for example. The cyberpunk logo is flickering and glitching (so it's a video) and the time is on top, written in the same font CDPR used for that 2077.

Even though i never played that game myself, i like the design

The concrete Problem i have is, that the Program shows up on startup (which it should), but then stops replacing the desktop, when you do anything on the system. It basically keeps running in the background without actually doing anything. I usually can fix that, when i kill it and restart it.

I believe I used to dabble in something called "conky", but not sure if it supports 3d acceleration.

Personally I just want random wallpapers from my huge set gathered over all these years, I use "variety" for that.

@NeatNerdPrime thank you, will take a look at it :)

I don't care about 3D, atleast not as desktop background, because i can just create a video in blender, and use that instead.

If it's video as wallstream you could try vlc set as desktop background as a desktop startup program with a predefined playlistfrom command line. But that used to be really resource hungry and GNOME at the time did not like that at all.

@NeatNerdPrime yeah the question is, does it also can display time? I have a dock on the bottom and a status bar on the top, both hidden by default. When looking at the time i usually just press Mod4+D twice to show the desktop for a moment. But i saw something, that VLC can do that, yeah.

What maybe would be an option, is to write some kind of visualizer, to make custom stuff like that in vlc. But that would be a last resort i guess.

First world problems😅