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HydraPaper

by Gabriele Musco

Wallpaper manager with multi monitor support

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0+ v3.3.2

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About

HydraPaper is a wallpaper manager, specifically designed to work around the lack of functionality of many desktop environments to set a different wallpaper for each monitor in a multi monitor setup. It accomplishes this by scaling and merging different wallpapers into a single one and setting it as spanned.

It currently supports various desktop environments, including GNOME, MATE, Cinnamon and Budgie. Experimental support is included for the sway window manager.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • read-only access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home:ro
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • display configuration
    --talk-name=org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig
  • talks to org.gnome.SettingsDaemon
    --talk-name=org.gnome.SettingsDaemon

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