glouw/paperview

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Paperview is a high-performance animated wallpaper setter for Linux X11 desktops, written in C using SDL2 to render BMP frame sequences onto the root window. It supports multi-monitor setups with per-monitor scenes and runs efficiently at 60fps with low CPU usage.

Use cases

• set an animated wallpaper on Linux X11
• play a BMP frame sequence as desktop background
• show different animations on each monitor
• run animated wallpaper as a background daemon
• create custom animated scenes from GIFs

When to choose

• you use X11 on Linux and want a lightweight animated wallpaper
• you need multi-monitor support with different scenes per screen
• you want low CPU/GPU overhead compared to looping feh scripts

When to avoid

• you use Wayland instead of X11
• you run a compositor like Picom or Compton that overwrites the root window
• you need PNG or video formats rather than BMP frames
• you are on Windows or macOS

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

graphics animation gui desktop-applications graphics operating-systems cli cpp animated-wallpaper x11 sdl2 desktop-customization bmp linux

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