mpvpaper

mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors, such as sway. That allows you to play videos with mpv as your wallpaper.

Dependencies

• mpv
• wlroots

Building

Building Requirements:

• ninja
• meson
• pkg-config

Clone | Build | Install:

# Clone
git clone --single-branch https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper
# Build
cd mpvpaper
meson build --prefix=/usr/local
ninja -C build
# Install
ninja -C build install

Usage

Simple example:

mpvpaper DP-2 /path/to/video

To play the same video on all outputs:

mpvpaper '*' /path/to/video

You can also forward mpv options by passing "--mpv-options" or "-o" like so:

mpvpaper -o "no-audio --loop-playlist shuffle" HDMI-A-1 www.url/to/playlist

You can also control mpvpaper just like mpv in the terminal with keyboard bindings.

But if you would like to control mpvpaper while it's forked, you could use a mpv input-ipc-server like this:

mpvpaper -o "input-ipc-server=/tmp/mpv-socket" DP-1 /path/to/video

Then input commands with socat. For example, toggle pause:

echo 'cycle pause' | socat - /tmp/mpv-socket

For more mpv commands read: https://mpv.io/manual/master/#command-interface

For more info on mpvpaper, please refer the the man page.

Acknowledgments

• glpaper and swaybg for the initial boilerplate code, check em out here:
  • https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/glpaper
  • https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE file for details