Feature request: Scrolling/sliding wallpaper

[auctumnus]

In a window manager with workspaces, it would be nice to have a sliding/scrolling effect when moving between workspaces, similar to moving between pages of the home screen on iOS or Android.

At the moment, I don't think this achievable with any of the transitions currently implemented, and I'm not sure how the API for a transition like this would work. The nicest API, in my opinion, might look like swww slide 0.1 left - a slide subcommand which takes a float percentage of the screen and a direction, which should move the image (assuming it's larger than the output).

(Although, it would be nice for it to inherit some of the transition options like --step, --duration, --fps, etc)

[flick0]

this is possible with scripting, you hv the transition left or right run when workspace changes, and tweak the bezier so it looks natural

[auctumnus]

got around to trying this, but there's a delay between pressing the key and the wallpaper changing; is this a problem of my computer simply not reading the file fast enough, or is there a way to reduce the delay?

this is with running a command like swww img background-2.png --transition-type right --transition-duration 0.01 --transition-bezier 0,.68,1,.61

[LGFae]

Is your image already at the correct scale? That's the only thing that should take a while.

[auctumnus]

It's already at the size of my display, and I'm not using any --filter options (although I did also just try it with --filter Nearest and it had no effect)

[LGFae]

Hm. In that case, I am not sure there's anything we can do. It might improve if I come up with a faster way of sending stuff through the socket, but I wouldn't count on it.