wayvid

Animated wallpaper manager for Wayland compositors.

v0.5 introduces a GUI-first design — just open the app, pick a wallpaper, and apply.

Features

• 🖼️ GUI wallpaper browser - Thumbnails, search, and one-click apply
• 🖥️ Multi-monitor support - Independent wallpapers per display
• ⚡ Hardware accelerated - VA-API/NVDEC via mpv
• 🎮 Steam Workshop - Import video wallpapers from Wallpaper Engine
• 🌈 HDR support - 10-bit HDR with tone-mapping
• 🔧 CLI tools - wayvid-ctl for scripting and automation

Tested Compositors

• Hyprland ✓
• Niri ✓
• Sway (should work)
• River (should work)

Quick Start

# Install (Arch)
yay -S wayvid

# Run
wayvid-gui

Quick Links

• Installation
• GUI Guide
• CLI Reference
• GitHub

Requirements

• Linux with Wayland
• Compositor with wlr-layer-shell support
• libmpv, libEGL, libwayland-client

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0