christianloopp/komorebi

Komorebi is a desktop wallpaper manager for Linux that displays animated wallpapers instead of static images. The name comes from a Japanese word describing the way sunlight filters through tree leaves, which hints at the soft, living quality the project aims to bring to the desktop. It supports three types of wallpapers: regular images, videos, and web pages, each of which can be customized through a settings panel. To change your wallpaper or tweak preferences, you right-click anywhere on the desktop to open a menu. The project also includes a separate tool called Wallpaper Creator, which lets you build your own custom wallpapers from an image, video, or web page, with various options for how they look. Installing Komorebi is either simple or technical depending on which path you take. The easy route is to download a pre-packaged release file and open it with your package installer, the same way you might install any desktop application. The manual route involves running a series of terminal commands to install dependencies and compile the software from source. The README addresses a couple of known issues. Video wallpapers can slow down older machines, and the setting to turn them off is in the Desktop Preferences menu. There is also a past bug where uninstalling Komorebi could leave the desktop in a broken state, though the README says newer versions have fixed this and includes a one-line command to recover if it does happen. The project is written in Vala, which is a programming language used primarily for building software on the Linux desktop. Development continues but at a slower pace because the creator is involved in other open-source work. Multi-monitor support was added by a contributor.