Open Source Linux Wallpaper Apps

Komorebi is an awesome animated wallpaper manager for all Linux platforms. It provides fully customizable image, video, and web page wallpapers that can be tweaked at any time.

TaskbarX offers precise control over taskbar icon placement, providing a Windows dock-like ambiance. Enjoy customizable animations, speeds, and positioning options. Easily tailor your taskbar to your preferences, with support for vertical taskbars and multiple instances. Developed since May 6, 2018, under the aliases FalconX and Falcon10, TaskbarX ensures a seamless user experience.

Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Panoramio, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.

PortalView delivers real-time wallpaper from thousands of webcams and weather sites worldwide. Launch this simple Python program on the boot or with a click to watch the sun set over the Mediterranean or Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone Park. Automatic updating allows you to monitor your local webcam or road conditions without keeping a resource-hungry browser open. Doppler and Satellite maps keep you informed of approaching weather. World Sunlight maps (Earthlights) include rectangular, hemispheric and moon phase views. Includes scores of international webcams and weather maps to start with, then customize with your favorites. Supports .jpg, .gif and .png image formats.

Rockford Windows Log on Background change is perfect tool. (Tested and working 100% on Windows 7 32 Bit). To run it properly, you must be an administrator and you need to right click on the application Icon and select “Run as administrator” option. If you are an organization / School or College, you would love our product. With single click you can customize your assets like never before. Apply your Banners, postings, important news as windows log on background. My or May not work on Windows 7 64 Bit, working on new version. Its Unique Blue Ice UI is new developed concept for single screen application. Please leave your suggestions comments here and at www.rockfordsolutions.in Features: >View background and wallpaper before changing >Change Logon screen with one click >Change wallpapers with one click >Cleanup Button >Update Blue Ice UI for less flicking >New and cool Loading animation >Loading Screen when loading JPG files from folders, etc

SyncWall is quite a basic wallpaper changer with a special feature, it is the ability to synchronize wallpaper change between several workstations with a basic (and unsecured) client/server protocol. Each workstation must share the same pool of files, there is no FTP or Internet download. Because SyncWall is written with Qt, SyncWall runs on Windows and Linux (MacOSX isn't tested yet).

Wallch is a general purpose Wallpaper Changer for the GNOME desktop which can change the desktop background image after an adjustable time. The aim of Wallch is to make it easier for you to keep your desktop "fresh" and new!

Dynamic wallpaper is based on weather-wallpaper and generates svg wallpaper based on current weather, season, time of day and others. It supports themes. The intended use is for GNOME desktop and will probably work on KDE.

(very resumed description) Basic features: -Customize file(s) and/or recursive folder(s) as source data -Can excluded folders and files -Change when windows or the program starts or every x hours/minutes -Random o sequential image selection -Start with Windows **UNIQUE** Features: -Changes the logon windows (win 7 only) to match the main desktop wallpaper. -Smart multi-monitor support: -Auto change when a display is plugged or unplugged or it is moved in the display array. -Extended images supports many displays with different resolutions and defaced displays. -Auto change when any display resolution is changed -Collage: create your onw collages to display many images at once. Try it! -Many collages: why having only one collage? configure many collages and let them play random! -Some Collages are preconfigured and some basic background patterns are provided. -Random feature does not repeat the files until all of them have been shown. -and even more

WebWallpaper periodically downloads the newest/latest image from a Webcam or any specified Url on the Internet, stores it to a file on the hard disk and sets it as current wallpaper.

WallBash - a simple bash script that brings to your computers Ubuntu wallpapers

This simple application automatically changes the desktop wallpaper on your desktop periodically according to the users settings. It chooses images from a user specified folder.

BackDrop makes precision layouts of images for use as wallpaper on multi-monitor systems.

ChBg is desktop background manager which allows you to exchange periodicaly your wallpaper. With same functionality you can use it as simple screensaver or xscreensaver hack. Also it is posible to use it as quite good image viewer.

Tired of your wallpaper? Open Papr and search for the desired theme, it can be the name of a movie, series, game or artist, as well as common keywords like "nature" or "motorcycles", as soon as you press "enter" you will see a list of related wallpapers with the perfect size for your screen, just choose one and click to apply it. Easy breezy!

Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Bing, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.

Changes wallpapers. Written in .NET (C#). To use it you just need to specify a folder where your wallpapers is stored. To add a new wallpaper you just need to copy file in the wallpapers folder. All subfilders will be seen as wallpaper categories.

Wallpaper changer software for Windows and Linux.

A random wallpaper generator which places photos randomly or tiled on the background with new photos being added at specified intervals.

BgChanger is a simple set of python scripts adding wallpaper rotation functionality to gnome. It is designed to be *simple* above all else. No complicated menus or options. Add images and change options for bgchanger via terminal or included gui.

BuzzyWall is a wallpaper site creator script that has been created for ease of installation and use by webmasters of any expertise. This is completely written in PHP, Javascript and uses MySQL database backend.

CWallpaper is a front end for fbsetbg, Esetroot, feh, and other wallpaper changers. It can also be used to change the wallpaper for Rox's pinboard. It has the ability to work with any root wallpaper changer, and can now load the last wallpaper used.

ChBg2 is desktop background manager which allows you to exchange periodicaly your wallpaper. With same functionality you can use it as simple screensaver or xscreensaver hack. This is the new version ported to Gtk2 and Imlib2 libraries.