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.

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!

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.

Change the wallpaper according to the weather. Information about the weather at the selected location is fetched from Google. NOTE: New project with new version is here: https://github.com/onli/izulu

Desktop wallpaper management application for Gnome. Cortina changes wallpapers by time. It works as an tray application with an configuration interface. It works great under Ubuntu Lucid and all other gnome using distributions.Cortina is a lightweigh Repository: ppa:cs-sniffer/cortina http://ppa.launchpad.net/cs-sniffer/cortina/ubuntu

A simple yet useful wallpaper changer. This app does what it says on the title, it changes your wallpaper based on album set by You as the User. It has nightmode, random wallpaper feature, and multi-monitor support. It is made in electron using vanilla js, some npm modules, Bulma CSS, and electron forge. Support windows and linux. Project repository: https://github.com/Dadangdut33/simple-wallpaper-changer

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.

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).

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

From Stardock: DeskScapes enables users to customize their PC wallpapers and screensavers with pictures and video to create visually stunning results. Featuring an all new user interface and support for Windows 8, DeskScapes makes it easy to apply special effects to any wallpaper with just a few clicks. DeskScapes includes DreamMaker, which enables users to design their own animated wallpapers called Dreams. Users may also choose from the many Dreams available from Stardock's WinCustomize community. DeskScapes 8 also supports displaying different wallpapers on multiple monitors. What's new in this version: Fixed black screen if user locks the computer before restarting Windows after installing.

(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

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.

Jawc (Just Another Wallpaper Changer) is a Plugin-Based Wallpaper Changer and can change your desktop background picture from a lot of different sources like your PC's folders, Flickr or VladStudio, just depending on which plugins you enable.

A small wallpaper changer with installer, integrates with Gnome and Mate-Desktop, changing wallpaper between 1 and 5 minutes in a random way. It is easy to configure by removing the conf file, you get asked to point the program to a wallpaper folder. Wallpaper folder can be any, if filled with jpg files. If you support family members pc you can surprise them with this program to rotate nice photographs on their desktop. Companies can rotate information on the desktop this way. It's small, some kind of hidden and doesn't take much effort to install. Enjoy!!

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

Wallpaper changer software for Windows and Linux.

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.

Subtly changes the color of the GNOME desktop over time ― so slowly that it won't be noticed. This is a good alternative to placing a wallpaper.

Random Desktop Wallpaper Changer randomly selects a wallpaper from a configuration file, and sets it at startup. Windows only.

Script which downloads current and future POTD from Wikimedia Commons, adds a summary caption to the bottom, and sets as desktop background image for gnome. Can also be setup on a server to download images any desired time of the day then mirror them for faster retrival from personal devices on the LAN. Has been tested on Ubuntu. Could be used on a RaspberryPi powered digital picture frame. Need to impliment auto cleanup for old images. Please leave feedback & suggestions for improvement!

Flipit is a desktop wallpaper manager for gnome. Given a foldername and time interval, it sets each of the pictures in the folder as a wallpaper after the specified time interval one by one.

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.