Installation
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You need to install at least one of the backends and waypaper itself, which works as a frontend.
Install a preferred backend from your package manager: or or mpvpaper on Wayland or on Xorg or on both.
Waypaper is available as a package in different repositories listed below:
On all distributions
pipx install waypaper
If pipx is not found, you first need to install pipx from your package manager, it's sometimes called python-pipx.
On Arch-based distributions
yay -S waypaper or yay -S waypaper-git
The and package is available in AUR, thanks to metak. Please upvote them to support the project. Please understand that the waypaper-git package is not always stable.
On NixOS
The waypaper package is available thanks to Basil Keeler.
swww or swaybg or feh or wallutils or hyprpaper
gobject python library (it might be called python-gobject or python3-gi or python3-gobject in your package manager.)
python-importlib_metadata
python-platformdirs
Users of OpenSUSE via pipx install waypaper. This problem might be resolved by installing the python311-pycairo-devel package.
Users reported , which might be resolved by installing cairo-gobject-devel package. Then install with pipx as described above.
If it doesn't work, Waypaper is available in an . So, you can add this repository as sudo dnf copr enable solopasha/hyprland and install as sudo dnf install wayapaper.