WavyBackgrounds

A simple program to emulate the dynamic desktop wallpapers from macOS Sonoma.

Functionality

• Fetch the original macOS Sonoma background videos independently from the system
• Ability to apply multiple dynamic backgrounds to different spaces (i.e., the current (active) space will be picked)
• Remove dynamic backgrounds (either all at once or the one on the active space)
• Control the app without a main window by using the System Tray

Dependencies

• Rust (Nightly-Chain)[^1]
• Node (npm)

Building the application

Note that cross-compilation is not possible, as the linker requires some of Apple's Frameworks (Foundation, AppKit, AVFoundation) to be present at build-time. This app will only run correctly on macOS 14.0 or later.

$ git clone https://github.com/philippremy/WavyBackgrounds.git
$ cd WavyBackgrounds && cd WavyBackgroundsClient
$ npm install
$ npm run tauri build                                      # Just build the current architecture
$ npm run tauri build -- --target universal-apple-darwin   # Build a universal binary (requires both Rust Chains to be installed!)
$ npm run tauri dev                                        # Build a live development build with Hot Reloading

[^1]: If you have multiple Rust toolchains installed: First set your compiler default to nightly: rustup default nightly.