Not working in Ubuntu 20.10

glouw / paperview

A high performance X11 animated wallpaper setter

https://glouw.com/2020/08/02/Paperview.html

MIT License

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Not working in Ubuntu 20.10 #17

Open kristoiv opened 4 years ago

kristoiv commented 4 years ago

Hello.

Just compiled it and ran it on a fresh Ubuntu 20.10 install. The program is running and I could confirm that it is running the rendering functions, but the wallpaper doesn't change from the system set one.

Is it not supported? Maybe Gnome gets in the way?

glouw commented 4 years ago

Yeah, I believe GNOME uses a compositor which paperview needs. Paperview works best with window managers that do not use compositors:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/window_manager

In the future I plan to write my own window manager with animated wallpapers built in which should hopefully help out a little more with the whole compatibility issue.

DroWnThePoor commented 1 year ago

@glouw I'm guessing this issue is still relevant and pertains to Ubuntu 18.04 with Gnome as well? I just built paperview and converted a .gif, and I'm also seeing the process running with no change to background. Perhaps the readme should mention Gnome isn't compatible with paperview. I honestly forgot about Mutter being a compositor for Gnome, and some people may not even be aware of compositors in general.