Flatsonar

BetterWallpaper

by Misiix9

Modern animated wallpaper manager for Hyprland

Broad permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v1.0.0
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About

BetterWallpaper is a high-performance animated wallpaper manager designed specifically for Hyprland and Wayland compositors. It supports static images, videos, GIFs, and Wallpaper Engine scenes. Features include: - Multi-monitor support with independent wallpapers - Video and animated wallpapers via MPV - Wallpaper Engine scene support (via linux-wallpaperengine) - Steam Workshop integration - Profile and scheduling system - Color extraction and theming (pywal, matugen) - System tray integration

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • read-only access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home:ro
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your pictures folder
    --filesystem=xdg-pictures
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
  • talks to org.gtk.vfs.*
    --talk-name=org.gtk.vfs.*
  • sets environment variable GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH
    --env=GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH=/app/lib/gstreamer-1.0

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing
    source:unpinned
  • hosted by github.com/misiix9, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.misiix9.betterwallpaper
    publisher:namespace

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