option to apply wallpaper immediately

[KorigamiK]

Hyprpaper uses too much memory as you add more and more preload targets.
An ability to use it in without preload and applying the wallpaper immediately would greatly help!

Thanks

[vaxerski]

preload + wallpaper + unload?

You can't "directly" load a wallpaper. You need to preload it into memory first..

[KorigamiK]

preload + wallpaper + unload?

You can't "directly" load a wallpaper. You need to preload it into memory first..

Ik I can do that but it's a common use case that can be supported through the cli

[vaxerski]

it's wasteful and kinda not that simple to implement, though.

[KorigamiK]

it's wasteful and kinda not that simple to implement, though.

Since the ipc consumes a lot of battery, a command to set a wallpaper instead would be great and a lot of people won't need to enable IPC.
I'm not really sure on the implementation part of a command though, I believe it can be done

[vaxerski]

the wallpaper needs to be kept in memory because whenever you add a monitor, or change its resolution, it needs to be re-rendered...

[KorigamiK]

the wallpaper needs to be kept in memory because whenever you add a monitor, or change its resolution, it needs to be re-rendered...

So keeping just the current wallpaper preloaded is a good idea?

[vaxerski]

yes, that's what hyprctl hyprpaper unload unused does

[anufrievroman]

With waypaper we also struggled a bit to implement hyprpaper support, partly because of this story of preload/unload via hyprctl. All other wallpaper managers just use one command to set a new wallpaper (i.e. load it, set it, and unload previous). Anyway, we finally made it work, but the idea of this implementation is really original to say the least :D