• Recursive and lightning fast file searching
• Can load thousands of wallpapers with ease
• Supports images, GIFs and videos
• Supports external scripts when changing wallpapers
• Can list full wallpaper state in JSON format
• Fully supports:
  • hyprpaper (hyprland - png, jpeg, webp, jxl)
  • swaybg (sway - png, jpeg, tiff, tga, gif)
  • mpvpaper (any video/image format with mpv config)
  • awww (jpeg, png, gif, pnm, tga, tiff, webp, bmp, farbfeld with transitions)

1. Install required wallpaper changer(s) based on your needs:
   • hyprpaper for Hyprland
   • swaybg for Sway
   • mpvpaper for video support
   • awww for transition effects
2. Install waytrogen:
   • Arch Linux: Available on AUR
   • NixOS: Available on Nixpkgs
   • Debian, Ubuntu,Linux-Mint, etc. - Get the latest .deb in our releases.
   • Fedora: Enable COPR Repository sudo dnf copr enable nikolaizombie1/waytrogen and install sudo dnf install waytrogen

• Launch via terminal: waytrogen
• Restore previous wallpapers: waytrogen --restore or waytrogen -r
• List current state in JSON: waytrogen --list or waytrogen -l
• Use external script: waytrogen --external_script or waytrogen -e
  • Script receives: monitor, wallpaper path, complete state
  • Overrides config.json executable_script property.
• Cycle to the next wallpaper: waytrogen --next or waytrogen -n

On NixOS, you can use the provided flake.nix to compile and install from source. Just simply clone the repository using:

git clone https://github.com/nikolaizombie1/waytrogen.git && cd waytrogen

For those who would like to build from source on other distributions, the following dependencies are required:

• sqlite3 version 3.42 or greater
• openssl version 3.0 or greater
• gtk4 version 4.12 or greater
• gio-2.0 version 2.78 or greater
• glib-2.0 version 2.78 or greater
• meson version 1.2 or greater
• ninja version 1.10 or greater
• cargo version 1.75 or greater

On Arch use the following command to install the required build dependencies:

sudo pacman -S gtk4 sqlite openssl glib2 rust meson ninja

On Ubuntu use the following command to install the required build dependencies:

sudo apt install libgtk-4-1 openssl libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libglib2.0-dev sqlite3 libgtk-4-dev meson ninja cargo

Then clone the repository using:

git clone https://github.com/nikolaizombie1/waytrogen.git && cd waytrogen

Configure meson and build using:

meson setup builddir --prefix=/usr && meson compile -C builddir

If you would like to install to your system, use:

meson install -C builddir

All help is welcome and appreciated for waytrogen. If you would like to contribute to waytrogen follow these steps:

1. Create a fork of waytrogen by clicking the fork button on the top of the github repository.
2. Clone your fork waytrogen:

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/waytrogen.git && cd waytrogen

3. Create a branch who's name describe the changes you would like to do. Please be descriptive, do not use titles such as: update-readme or fix-bug

git switch --create descriptive-branch-name main

4. Perform the changes you like to do.

   • If you want to add a new language to waytrogen, follow these steps:

     1. Install gettext

     On Arch Linux use:

     sudo pacman -S gettext

     On Ubuntu use:

     sudo apt install gettext

     On NixOS gettext is already installed.

     2. Run cd po
     3. Add the language code you would like to add using a language code from here to the LINGUAS file. Keep the file ordered alphabetically.
     4. Create the skeleton po file using the following command:

     msginit -i waytrogen -o LL.po -l LL_CC.UTF8

     Where LL is the language code used in the previous step and CC is the country code can be obtained here

     5. Modify the skeleton po the sections where it says msgstr ""

   • If you would like to do code changes, follow these steps:

     1. Install waytrogen either from source or from your package manager. This is to install the required schemas. Skip this step if developing on NixOS.
     2. Install the required development dependencies:

     On Arch Linux, use:

     sudo pacman -S gtk4 sqlite openssl glib2 rust

     On Ubuntu, use:

     sudo apt install sqlite3 openssl libgtk-4-1 libglib2.0-dev cargo

     On NixOS, add the following snippet to your configuration.nix

     programs.direnv = {
     enable = true;
     nix-direnv.enable = true;
     };

     If the nix flake is not loading in properly, run direnv allow in the root of the repository to enable the flake.

     3. Perform the changes you would like to do on waytrogen.
     4. Compile and run waytrogen with the new changes using the following based on the distribution:
     • If on NixOS simply run:

     nix build && nix run

     • On any other distribution, run:

     cargo run --release

     5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you are satisfied with your changes.
5. Run cargo clippy and make sure there are no suggestions.
6. Format the project using cargo fmt --all
7. Create a commit who's message describes your changes in slightly more detail.
8. Go to your fork and create a pull request for nikolaizombie1:waytrogen on the main branch. If needed, go into detail what do your changes do in the description of the pull request.

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