Glossary

Glossary

• Steam library — the folder containing steamapps/. Default ~/.local/share/Steam.
• Workshop — Steam's user-generated content catalogue. Wallpaper Engine's Workshop appid is 431960.
• Scene wallpaper — a layered 2D animated wallpaper using Wallpaper Engine's own scene format. Rendered by wallpaper-scene-renderer.
• Web wallpaper — an HTML/JS/CSS wallpaper rendered in an embedded web view.
• Video wallpaper — a video file (mp4 / webm / etc.) looped as a background.
• Plasma 6 — the current major version of the KDE desktop environment, built on Qt 6.
• plasmashell — the user-level systemd service that runs your desktop.
• kpackagetool6 — KDE's CLI for installing/removing Plasma packages (wallpapers, applets, look-and-feel themes).
• RADV — Mesa's open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs.
• SceneScript — Wallpaper Engine's authoring-time JavaScript API. The renderer implements most of it; see Scene Renderer → SceneScript.
• Control Point (CP) — in Wallpaper Engine's particle system, a movable reference point particles can attract toward / orbit / inherit velocity from. Up to 8 per particle system.
• Puppet warp — Wallpaper Engine's skeletal-animation system for 2D layered art.
• TEXB — Wallpaper Engine's texture container format (v1–v4 supported).
• MDL — Wallpaper Engine's 3D model format (v13+ supported).
• MPRIS — Linux's standard D-Bus interface for media player control. The renderer hooks it up so SceneScript can receive playback / metadata / thumbnail events.