Open-source alternatives to QuickWall

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 Gradient / Blured Wallpaper Generator And Setter.

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

A live wallpaper setter for linux written in bash

a fast and light image viewer

Set your wallpaper with the best available application

Background browser and setter for X windows.

KDE/Plasma wallpaper/widgets for virtual desktops

Iconify lets you customize your Android 12+ device easily. Change icons, colors, shapes, and even the notification panel for a personalized look that suits your style.

Themer is a color palette theme generator that produces matching color themes for code editors, terminal emulators, desktop applications, and wallpapers from a single user-defined color set. It accepts standard Base16 YAML color scheme files as input and supports defining custom color palettes with separate dark and light variants. The tool generates visually consistent themes across over a dozen code editors and IDEs, multiple terminal emulators, and various desktop applications, while also creating matching desktop wallpapers in multiple resolutions and visual styles. It operates through a

Blazing-fast pywal-like color palette generator written in C.

Wallpaper manager for wlroots-based compositors and some other WMs

weather-aware desktop background images

Get or set the desktop wallpaper

A simple, CLI to download Unsplash wallpapers. Nothing fancy — it just works.

Starship is a cross-shell prompt engine that provides a unified, context-aware command line interface. It functions as a terminal customization tool, allowing users to modify the appearance and behavior of their shell prompts through a centralized, configuration-driven utility. The project operates as a compiled, statically linked binary that integrates directly into shell startup sequences to ensure consistent performance across different operating systems. By utilizing shell-agnostic hooks, it injects dynamically generated strings into the prompt regardless of the underlying command interpr

wallpaper setting utility for X