Open-source alternatives to Xwallpaper

Aerial is a macOS screensaver application and background manager that replaces static images with a rotating series of high-resolution aerial cinema shots. It functions as an Apple TV video streamer, fetching and displaying official aerial screensavers originally designed for Apple TV to be used as dynamic backgrounds on a Mac. The project integrates Apple TV content to enable desktop wallpaper customization and dynamic screensaver management. This allows the system to stream high-definition aerial views from remote sources to serve as a living background or an automated screensaver when the

Pywal is an image-based theme engine and dynamic color scheme generator that extracts dominant colors from images to create coordinated system-wide color palettes. It functions as a cross-application theme synchronizer and terminal color palette manager, updating interface colors and environment configurations in real-time. The system synchronizes generated palettes across third-party software, window managers, and supported hardware, including RGB backlight controllers for keyboards and laptops. It integrates wallpaper management by applying a source image as the system background while simu

A simple bash script to set wallpapers according to current time, using cron job scheduler.

Komorebi is an animated wallpaper engine and manager for Linux systems. It functions as a toolkit for rendering videos, web pages, and images as dynamic desktop backgrounds. The project includes a custom wallpaper creator for building personalized backgrounds from various media types and web content. It provides a multi-monitor controller to coordinate individual or synchronized wallpaper settings across multiple display outputs. The software manages desktop preferences through a context-menu interface and supports resource throttling to reduce CPU and GPU usage. Its capabilities cover multi