xwallpaper

The xwallpaper utility allows you to set image files as your X wallpaper. JPEG, PNG, and XPM file formats are supported, all of them being configurable and therefore no fixed dependencies.

The wallpaper is also advertised to programs which support semi-transparent backgrounds.

Motivation

The aim of this project is to create a minimalistic wallpaper utility which focuses on the most common use cases.

It directly depends on libraries which are used by X, like libxcb, and therefore has no further hard dependencies on projects which are not already on your system due to having a basic X environment.

The last but not least focus of this project is to write a secure wallpaper utility, supporting very tight sandboxing mechanisms. A careful approach right from the start made this especially easy.

Installation

The build environment is based on autotools just like other X components. Building and installing is as simple as:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

To support all file formats, your system needs libjpeg-turbo, libpng, and libXpm. If one of the libraries is not found, the specific file format will not be supported. Also, if you compile for OpenBSD, the system call pledge is automatically used. On Linux systems, libseccomp is used if available to filter system calls.

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Tobias Stoeckmann [email protected]

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.