I built a Wayland wallpaper daemon that renders fragment shaders behind your windows on the background layer. It incorporates cursor position, all visible window geometry, and what’s active. Uses Gogh to match color schemes. Requires zig wayland wayland-protocols mesa libglvnd stb.
This reminds me of a positively ancient piece of software from the late 90s that would draw ripples in the root window of your X11 session. Got a link to the source?
BonziBuddy was my inspiration. New to Lemmy, meant to include the link. https://github.com/slastra/hyprglaze
Wayland
Aw… I don’t suppose there’s any chance of an X11-compatible version?
Or maybe something similar someone built for X11 back in the day?
I’ve actually got something similar already running on my Windows gaming computer (Lively Wallpaper), and I’d love to have a version that works with my old-ass Ubuntu.
Otherwise, I guess I’ll be waiting a few years until it’s finally time to redo my current system and I eventually move to something with Wayland.
Sorry, Hyprglaze is reliant on Hyprland’s IPC (socket). Something similar could be achieved with xwinwrap and EWMH for window geometry and currently active.
