Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python. 🐍

Hidamari 日溜まり【ひだまり】(n) sunny spot; exposure to the sun

If you like my project, please consider buying me a coffee!! (⁎˃ ꇴ ˂⁎)ｯ

Also please don't forget to click that star button! 🌟
Your support is truly appreciated!

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

There are several solutions to achieve video as wallpaper on Linux, for example:

1. Xwinwrap + mpv
2. Komorebi

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!

It is available on Flathub!

Install:
Make sure to follow the setup guide before installing

flatpak install flathub io.github.jeffshee.Hidamari

Run:

flatpak run io.github.jeffshee.Hidamari

These are maintained by the community!

Distro	URL	Maintainer
Arch Linux		None

Collaboration is welcome! Let's make it better together~
Feel free to open an issue if you have any problem or suggestion 🤗

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