Dynamic Wallpaper Engine

A wallpaper plugin for KDE Plasma that continuously updates the desktop background based on the current time in your location.

Additional Wallpapers

More dynamic wallpapers can be found at https://github.com/karmanyaahm/awesome-plasma5-dynamic-wallpapers.

Installation

Arch Linux

yay -S plasma5-wallpapers-dynamic

Ubuntu 20.10

sudo apt install plasma-wallpaper-dynamic

Building From Git

In order to build this wallpaper plugin from source code, you need to install a couple of prerequisites

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S cmake extra-cmake-modules git plasma-framework qt5-base qt5-declarative \
    qt5-location libexif libheif

Fedora:

sudo dnf install cmake extra-cmake-modules git kf5-kpackage-devel kf5-plasma-devel \
    kf5-ki18n-devel qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtdeclarative-devel qt5-qtlocation-devel \
    libexif-devel libheif-devel

Ubuntu:

sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules git libkf5package-dev libkf5plasma-dev \
    libkf5i18n-dev qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev qtpositioning5-dev gettext \
    qml-module-qtpositioning libexif-dev libheif-dev build-essential

Once all prerequisites are installed, you need to grab the source code

git clone https://github.com/zzag/plasma5-wallpapers-dynamic.git
cd plasma5-wallpapers-dynamic

Configure the build

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib \
    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF

Now trigger the build by running the following command

make

To install run

sudo make install

Components

This project consists of the following components:

• A C++ library that provides an easy way to read and write dynamic wallpapers
• A command line tool for creating dynamic wallpapers
• A plugin for KDE Plasma 5 that is responsible for displaying dynamic wallpapers

How to Use It

Right-click a blank area of the desktop and choose "Configure Desktop...", select "Dynamic" wallpaper type and click the Apply button.

How to Create a Dynamic Wallpaper

This engine ships with a command-line tool that one could use to create a dynamic wallpaper from a collection of jpeg or png images. See kdynamicwallpaperbuilder.

How to Use Dynamic Wallpapers for macOS

Since dynamic wallpapers for macOS and this plugin are incompatible, you need to use a script to convert dynamic wallpapers.

curl https://git.io/JJkjd -sL > dynamicwallpaperconverter
chmod +x dynamicwallpaperconverter

Once you've downloaded the dynamicwallpaperconverter script, you can start converting wallpapers

./dynamicwallpaperconverter --crossfade file.heic

After the command above has finished its execution, you should see a file in the current working directory named 'wallpaper.heic', which can be fed into this plugin.