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Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
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When setting a wallpaper image, the background switches to gray and then to the image #3

Closed muni-corn closed 5 years ago

muni-corn commented 5 years ago

I'm moving this from the sway repository to here (since I have the same problem and am writing a program like blurwal). This issue was originally created by @xyproto. Here's what he said originally:

Hi,

I wrote a utility for being able to set Timed Wallpapers (wallpaper slideshows, with crossfade between images) that also works for Wayland/Sway.

This works nicely, but when the wallpaper is changed, the background blinks by first switching to gray and then to the selected image.

Steps to reproduce:

Install the Mojave timed wallpaper, either from GitHub or from the AUR package named gnome-mojave-timed-wallpaper (if you use Arch Linux). Install wallutils, either from GitHub or from the AUR package named wallutils (if you use Arch Linux). Run this command settimed mojave-timed. Then just wait a bit, and the background will blink every few minutes.

The command being run for setting the wallpaper looks like this:

swaymsg 'output "*" background /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/mojave/mojave_dynamic-1320.jpg fill'

This is a feature request for the background image to be switched smoothly, without the background blinking.

I'm using sway version 1.0-beta.1-245-gdbf8e1ce (Nov 27 2018, branch 'master') and have also tested with the latest master of sway (which fixes the problem with the windows blinking too).

Thanks for creating Sway!

emersion commented 5 years ago

Duplicate of https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3693