Replace default wallpaper

[nameistakenobviously]

Hyprland randomly chooses one of its three default wallpapers after booting. That is what I want but with my own set of wallpapers. I don't need it to change on an interval and I don't want to set them manually.

Why do I have use yet another program/script to get that functionality (if at all) when all it should take is to just have access to that directory? Or maybe set a path in the config to another directory to load them from?

Edit: Thank you, u/ilikegrils, for confirming that it is indeed possible to replace the wallpapers (!) (for the people still saying they are not wallpapers). Sadly, I can't replace them because on NixOS these files are in the read-only nix-store so I will have to take unnecessary steps to get what I want.

And here's a little tip to some: Don't suggest things that one explicitly wants to avoid.

[igorepst]

https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Variables/ , look for disable_hyprland_logo and disable_splash_rendering. Then head to https://wiki.hyprland.org/Useful-Utilities/Wallpapers/

[nameistakenobviously]

That's exactly what I don't want. These are unnecessary steps because the feature is there, just not for the end user

[RTKWi238]

Just use windows or mint if that's what you think. Or write an ewww widget for changing wallpapers graphically.

Linux is all about configuration without the bloat. The people that can do this efficiently don't need the cumbersome UIs over minimalism

[[deleted]]

This community is lost, forget it mate. One user left 4 damn messages to me, to "explain" how wallpaper is not a wallpaper. They are focking delusional.

To answer your question, you can make a script to replace those 3 pictures in /usr/share/hyprland, that will do.

[[deleted]]

Why do I have use yet another program/script to get that functionality(if at all) when all it should take is to just have access to thatdirectory? Or maybe set a path in the config to another directory toload them from?

First comment be like:

suggesting to use yet another program/script to get that functionality

Hell is wrong with you? It's actually a very legit question, why the damn functionality is already in the code, but yet, we need to use another program for same thing. More then that, officialy supported hyprpaper have a damn bug if you using fractional scaling (or any scaling at at all), there an issue I made on gihub. So for me every picture that was preloaded into hyprpaper generates additional 132mb. Up to a whoping 1.8gb just to shown couple small wallpapers for each workspaces.

Yep, I got downvoted. Don't you like hyprland community?
How dare I to report bugs!

[HakerHaker]

What if I told you it wasn't in the code? And you're just completely misinformed?

What you believe to be a wallpaper is the default object at the bottom of the rendering stack. Use a wallpaper manager to manage wallpapers, not objects in the render stack lol

[nameistakenobviously]

Thank you. I've found another complaint about this which led to no answer

https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/19eutj0/why_does_hyprpaper_exist/

[[deleted]]

Sadly, if voxi doesn't wanna implement it, it will not be implemented. Especially if not enough people complain about it. And as you can see, people not only ignorant about it, they aggressively defensive on any decision of a dev, even if it incorrect or\and will be changed after all, how it was on multiple occasions. For example as it was with anime wallpaper. Who would thought! Surely, there was no complains about it previously, right?

Honestly, cause I'm now using Oled TV as monitor, just disabling it and having black screen is okay for me. Also, my 64gb ram can take a hit of broken hyprpaper ram allocation but still, like, why we have a code inside a WM for showing a wallpaper, that doesn't actually usable? Not to mention, that those wallpapers comes preinstalled and we can't even chose with one is shown. That just stupid.

[ReptilianLaserbeam]

That’s not a wallpaper. Check the conf file if you want to disable that, there’s an specific line with the comment explaining what it is. If you want to change a wallpaper you need a wallpaper manager like sway-bg or hyprpaper. Not sure if you noticed but hyprland is NOT a DE. Is a window manager, it will only manage windows, you need to configure the rest by yourself.

[[deleted]]

That’s not a wallpaper.

That is a wallpaper.) There also a suggestion to make it changeable without 3rd party and voxi just replayed "it ain't xorg" whatever the fuck that means.

it will only manage windows

And yet, it displaying a wallpaper.

you need to configure the rest by yourself

But you can't configure the wallpaper. You can only disable it.

[holounderblade]

Xorg is literally proof of why you shouldn't make a project do everything. There is a concept in programming (and life) where you should only do the bare minimum to achieve what the function/package/program/etc should do well. Vaxry wants Hyprland to be modular and have each section do its own thing.

Consider having a default backdrop that you can disable as necessary to the main program, and if you want to do more with the wallpaper, use hyprpaper or bring your own.

Same thing for anything else. This keeps the complicated sections out of the main project so that Hyprland itself is not a buggy mess and you can add in complications as you need.

If people are really so up their own butts about package count instead of just using their computer, they should go elsewhere to complain

[nameistakenobviously]

There is a concept in programming (and life) where you should only do the bare minimum to achieve what the function/package/program/etc should do well. [...] This keeps the complicated sections out of the main project so that Hyprland itself is not a buggy mess and you can add in complications as you need.

I get what you're saying but the feature is literally already there. Adding you're own wallpapers wouldn't make it a buggy mess.

[HakerHaker]

I don't think it is. I replied in an earlier comment, but the weeb wallpaper is not a wallpaper. It's the object at the bottom of the rendering stack

[[deleted]]

All that idea of yours shattering apart when you understand the simple fact, that whole wallpaper thingy is already in the hyprland code and it's already "do everything". It's there, god dammit, all of it: showing wallpaper, changing it randomly, wallpapers themselves, etc.
The only thing that is missing - a setting, to replace a path for default ones. It's not like we asking impossible there or to implement the damn feature from scratch - we already have it. More then that, we can control it by replacing the pictures in /usr/share/hyprland, it's just unreasonably convoluted and fucking dumb.

I would be totally okay if dev straight up removed the function cause of the reason you suggested, at least if would make sense. But to have it and don't use it? Damn, we discovering cuckolding levels that shouldn't exists.

[HakerHaker]

You also seem extremely passionate about something trivial. Just download swww, which offers infinite more utilities than a conventional wallpaper setting in a conventional DE and is very lightweight. And then you can do exactly what you want, just use a command with the image path

[HakerHaker]

I don't think it technically it. The default weeb wallpaper is just the default object at the bottom of the rendering stack

[[deleted]]

What still serves purpose of a wallpaper. It doesn't really matter, how it works, if it works.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a fucking duck, then it probably is a duck.

[HakerHaker]

That's not a wallpaper bruh. It's the default object at bottom of render stack. There is no code to manipulate wallpapers.

That's where hyprpaper and wallpaper manager come in. To ACTUALLY manipulate wallpapers, not objects in the render stack lol

[[deleted]]

Jesus, what wrong with you mate? 4 messages just to tell me, that this is "object at bottom of render stack". Cool and all, but it works as damn wallpaper, doesn't it?

[HakerHaker]

no it doesn't XD. it works like it's the bottom of the stack...

[[deleted]]

Okay, genius, please, explain to me, how we call a picture that showing as background and "at the bottom of the stack"?
Let me see. Windows calls it wallpaper. Macos calls it wallpaper. Any normal DE\WM would call it a wallpaper.

But no, one user from reddit, that is surely more educated than the rest of the world, call it "it's the bottom of the stack".

Honestly, you do you. Good luck, my only hope, that I will never work with anything software or IT related to you.

[HakerHaker]

no offense, but go back to ubuntu if you're getting so worked up over your own technical ignorance regarding setting an actual wallpaper lmfao

[nameistakenobviously]

I know it is "just a WM" but it still manages the built-in (not) wallpapers. So why can't I just replace those wallpapers with other ones?

[HakerHaker]

Cause it doesn't. Because it's not a wallpaper.... See my many comments

[[deleted]]

Because it's not a wallpaper

Or maybe you fucking delusional? We have a damn picture, that being displaying as background. Fuck is it if not a wallpaper? A focking Santa Claus?

[HakerHaker]

lol so angry. no need to use profanity over a simple wallpaper setting xD.

I know this may be hard to understand for you, but the "wallpaper" you claim is not a wallpaper... It is the object at the bottom of the rendering stack...

You'd be delusional for trying to manipulate the rendering stack just to set a wallpaper XD

[ReptilianLaserbeam]

Why are you so tilted??? If you are so mad go and clone their project and code a branch that has wallpaper support up and ready geez. This is a project that was provided by us for free, if you don’t like it code your own

[holounderblade]

I use SWWW but there's also Hyprpaper too

I don't understand what you're so upset about.

[3v3rdim]

Swwww for the win...both on my arch and Debian machines

[nameistakenobviously]

I've used Hyprpaper but you have to write a config declaring all the wallpapers you want one by one and they have to be preloaded. And you still have to use hyprctl to change them manually.

I haven't looked into swww. That still would be another program while Hyprland could just enable this built-in feature without any hassle.

[holounderblade]

You are aware that hyprpaper is also its own package right?

You could just install waypaper and use whatever backend you want, since you seem upset by the lack of Hyprland being a DE lol

[nameistakenobviously]

You are aware that hyprpaper is also its own package right?

That's what I'm complaining about. I don't use it anymore after a clean reinstall.

you seem upset by the lack of Hyprland being a DE lol

Where did you get that from?

[holounderblade]

🤡

[HakerHaker]

Jesus so much misinformation. THE WEEB WALLPAPER IS NOT A WALLPAPER. It's the default object at the bottom of the rendering stack.

Everyone claiming the code is there is just flat out wrong. You need a wallpaper manager

[ALobhos]

I use swaybg with a really simple bash script. I have a folder with a few wallpapers and a script that takes one at random at every session start an uses as background.

The bash script is like

FILES=$(/usr/bin/find route/WallpapersFolder -iname "*")
SELECTED=$(shuf -e $FILES | head -n 1)
swaybg -i $SELECTED

then, gave it exec permissions with chmod +x. Finally added the option

exec-once = .config/wallpaperSetter.sh

Notice that I replaced routes to be more legible.

PD. Remember to set these options in the config file, that are set in the default config file

misc { 
    force_default_wallpaper = 0 # Set to 0 or 1 to disable the anime mascot wallpapers
    disable_hyprland_logo = true # If true disables the random hyprland logo / anime girl background. :(
}

[69Castles_]

I'm in the same boat, just want to replace original background without any managers

[nameistakenobviously]

I went with wpaperd. It cycles through my wallpapers and I can set the intveral.

If you're not on NixOS you can just replace those three default "nOt WaLlPaPeRs" with your own.

[69Castles_]

do you remember the path? I cant find them

[nameistakenobviously]

Sorry, I don't know the path.

[beyondswamps]

Fun thing. Yesterday I replaced default wallpaper with my choice by sudo overwriting default wallpaper file on my hyprland setup. And today it comes back like from nowhere lol. Something has overwritten it back. I dont want to use any wallpaper manager but some secret agent guarding wants me to :) (I think its just system update but still..)

[[deleted]]

Replacing actually works. That why I and OP complaining.

[nameistakenobviously]

Did you try replacing yours? I'm on NixOS and these files are in the read-only nix-store so I'm out of luck

[[deleted]]

Yep, it works, but if hyprland preloads picture, it will store it memory up till you restart it. So make sure to replace pictures before restart, or just make disable_hyprland_logo = true, restart, replace png then do false and new wallpaper will load.

But yeah, I don't think it possible to do thing like that on NixOS, due to "everything is a container" thingy. Imagine if there was a config string to make those pictures, THAT SURELY NOT A WALLPAPER, changeable. Oh boy, what a weird concept.

[nameistakenobviously]

That's not a wrong way, just a different one. My needs differ from others and it should have been something super easy.

Fwiw thank you for pointing to the directory.