# LGFae/swww

A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes

Repository: https://github.com/LGFae/swww
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/swww
Language: Rust
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: swww, wallpaper, wayland
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-10-31T19:31:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 49, release rhythm 48, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1707, "days_push": 306, "days_rel": 347, "gap_med": 5.5, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3609, forks 94 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:11.618999+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: graphics, image-processing, cli
- domain: desktop-applications, operating-systems, graphics
- platform: cli, rust
- tags: wayland, wallpaper, animated-gif, wlr-layer-shell, daemon, rust, linux

## Member repositories
- LGFae/swww (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:11.618999+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:33:39.800121+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/LGFae/swww (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:11.618999+00:00, sha ff71c356552f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.