Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python. 🐍
Hidamari 日溜まり【ひだまり】(n) sunny spot; exposure to the sun
Hidamari ーひだまりー
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For GNOME user 🐾
Please also check my new project Hanabi! While the project is still in its infancy, it has the potential to become more integrated with GNOME Shell
Features 🔥
There are several solutions to achieve video as wallpaper on Linux, for example:
Hidamari offers similar feature as above, with additional features listed below:
- Autostart after login
- Apply static wallpaper with blur effect 1
- Detect maximized window and fullscreen mode 2
- Volume control
- Mute/Pause the playback anytime with just 2 clicks!
- I'm feeling lucky 3
- Hardware accelerated video decoding! 4
- Gnome Wayland support!
- Multi-monitor support!
- Streaming URL support! 5
- Webpage as wallpaper! 6
- You name it! =)
1 Video frame can be applied as system wallpaper, look great in GNOME (currently GNOME exclusive, support for other DE might be added if requested...)
2 Automatically pauses playback when maximized window or full screen mode is detected (currently X11 only...)
3 Randomly select and play a video
4 Use vlc as backend (currently HW acceleration doesn't work with Nvidia+Wayland combination...)
5 Use yt-dlp as backend, tested with YouTube videos
6 Theoretically it can be anything from a normal webpage to Unity/Godot WebGL games, be creative!
Installation ⏬
Flatpak 📦
It is available on Flathub!
Command line instructions
Install:
Make sure to follow the setup guide before installing
flatpak install flathub io.github.jeffshee.Hidamari
Run:
flatpak run io.github.jeffshee.Hidamari
Unofficial package
These are maintained by the community!
| Distro | URL | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux |  |
None |
Screenshot 📸
Please!! 🙏
Collaboration is welcome! Let's make it better together~
Feel free to open an issue if you have any problem or suggestion 🤗
Contributors ✨
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