Installation
Installation
You need to install at least one of the backends and waypaper itself, which works as a frontend.
1. Install a backend
Install a preferred backend from your package manager: swww or swaybg on Wayland or feh on Xorg or wallutils on both.
2. Install Waypaper
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 waypaper and waypaper-git 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.
On OpenSUSE
Users of OpenSUSE reported problems with installation via pipx install waypaper. This problem might be resolved by installing the python311-pycairo-devel package.
On Fedora
Users reported issues with installation, 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 external repository owned by Solopasha. So, you can add this repository as sudo dnf copr enable solopasha/hyprland and install as sudo dnf install wayapaper.
Dependencies
swwworswaybgorfehorwallutilsorhyprpapergobject python library (it might be called
python-gobjectorpython3-giorpython3-gobjectin your package manager.)python-importlib_metadatapython-platformdirs
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