LGFae/swww
A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 49
- Release rhythm 48
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 5.5
- age_days: 1707
- days_rel: 347
- days_push: 306
- n_releases_24m: 7
Adoption not part of the score
3609 stars · 94 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
swww (now renamed awww) is an efficient animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland, controlled at runtime via a CLI client. It supports animated GIFs, many image formats, smooth transitions, and works with wlr-layer-shell compositors.
Use cases
- set animated gif wallpapers on wayland
- change desktop wallpaper without restarting a daemon
- apply smooth transition effects when switching wallpapers
- fill the screen with a solid color on wayland
- run wallpapers on wlroots-based compositors like sway or hyprland
When to choose
- you use a wlroots-based Wayland compositor and want efficient animated wallpapers
- you need runtime wallpaper changes with smooth transitions
- you want low memory usage compared to alternatives like oguri
When to avoid
- you run GNOME or KDE, which don't implement wlr-layer-shell
- you need X11 wallpaper support
- you need animated SVG support
Facets
application · maturity active
graphics image-processing cli desktop-applications operating-systems graphics cli rust wayland wallpaper animated-gif wlr-layer-shell daemon rust linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/LGFae/swww · fetched 2026-08-28 · ff71c356552f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| LGFae/swww | main | 10 |
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