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Free, open-source live wallpaper app for Linux. Browse a built-in wallpaper catalog, set videos or GIFs as your desktop, per-monitor wallpapers, day and night schedules. Hardware-accelerated on X11 and Wayland.
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: live wallpaper applications · 91 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- GIFs
- GitHub
- Wallpaper
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More like this: all 91 launches in live wallpaper applications →
Could you build this?
No Building hardware-accelerated live desktop wallpapers across both X11 and Wayland display servers requires low-level C/Rust desktop environment knowledge and graphic compositor integration.
What it would actually take: Requires deep Linux graphics stack programming (C/C++ or Rust) interfacing with Wayland protocols (wlr-layer-shell) and X11 root window hacks, plus hardware decoding via VA-API/NVDEC using mpv or GStreamer. Managing multi-monitor frame timing, compositor differences (GNOME, KDE, wlroots), and zero CPU idle usage demands specialized Linux systems engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 331 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #265 of 332 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
- lowpaper · github · 2026-10-03 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- LiveWall · ph · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- PaperFlow · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- penguin-engine · github · 2026-10-24 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Easyshot · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- SeeWallpapers · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built an open-source wallpaper gallery for GitHub repos · hn · 2025-12-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- SkyWallpaper · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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