Waytrogen

A GUI wallpaper setter for Wayland that is a spiritual successor for the minimalistic wallpaper changer for X11 nitrogen. Written purely in the Rust 🦀 programming language. Supports hyprpaper, swaybg, mpvpaper and swww wallpaper changers.

Features

• Recursive file searching
• Lightning fast file searching
• Can load thousands of wallpapers with ease
• Fully supports hyprpaper, swaybg, mpvpaper and swww.
• Responsive design
• Supports images, GIFs and videos

Installation

1. Install one or more of the following depending on what kind of wallpapers and desktop environment/window manager you are using:
   • hyprpaper if using hyprland and using only png, jpeg, webp or jxl images.
   • swaybg if using sway and only using png, jpeg, tiff, tga or gif images.
   • mpvpaper if using any kind of video or image format, but requires command line arguments to be passed to mpv for additional configuration.
   • swww for displaying jpeg, png, gif, pnm, tga, tiff, webp, bmp or farbfeld images and want transitions between images.
2. Install waytrogen using cargo install waytrogen.

Dependencies

• hyprpaper, swaybg, mpvpaper or swww
• ffmpeg

Usage

The waytrogen command can be used the terminal to launch the application or be launched using an application launcher.

The waytrogen --restore command can be used to restore previously set wallpapers.