lowpaper
Ultra-lightweight live / animated video wallpaper for Linux (X11 & Wayland), designed for low-end and old hardware. Minimal Bash script around mpv.
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Details
- External ID
- 1402716324
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- lowpaper
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 42
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6981132075471698
- Tags
- animated-wallpaper, bash, lightweight, linux, live-wallpaper, low-end, low-resource, minimal, mpv, old-hardware, video-wallpaper, wallpaper, wayland, x11, xfce
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- screenshot capture and beautification tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lightweight animated wallpaper tool for linux
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project is a lightweight shell script orchestrating standard Linux tools and mpv to draw video backgrounds on X11/Wayland.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- Fresco · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Overlook Live Wallpapers · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- VoxelWall · ph · 2026-09-12 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- HYPNIX · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- AuraPaper · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Outer-Wilds-Star-System-LIVE-Wallpaper · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Asight · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Phosphene · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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