Run a video as an animated live wallpaper on your Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux desktop with dual/multiple monitor support.
You can either run the application through its GUI or via the command line.
CLI usage: video-wallpaper.sh [--start] [--stop] [--startup true|false] "video_path.mp4"
--start Start playback of video wallpaper.
--stop Stop active playback.
--startup Start/disable playback of video file on system startup."
git clone https://github.com/ghostlexly/gpu-video-wallpaper.git
cd gpu-video*
./install.sh
These commands will download the repository and will set up all the required dependencies, install the necessary files to your system and optionally create an app menu entry. Now you can either use the CLI or open the 'Video Wallpaper' app from your application menu.
If want to run the installer on a distribution that is not based on Debian, you may want to run the installer in distro-agnostic mode: ./install.sh --distro-agnostic
. This will disable automatic dependency-checking and installing, which will not work on non-Debian distributions that don't use apt
as their package manager.
All dependencies will be installed when running install.sh
.
Run install.sh --uninstall
to remove all files associated with video-wallpaper.
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readme.md
instructions.installer.sh
now has a --distro-agnostic
flag (see "Installation" section of this readme).2021/08/19
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video-wallpaper.sh
Known errors:
settings.conf
, video-wallpaper.sh
will throw an error because it stumbles over the "[video-wallpaper settings]" section. This section, however, is needed by the python script. Since the shell script does not crash, this error message is tolerated for the moment until I get around to find a more elegant way than just sourcing settings.conf
.