Roliga/scrollpaper

Program that lets you drag your wallpaper around for X11

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ScrollPaper

Lets you drag your wallpaper horizontally or vertically depending on its aspect ratio. Too wide for your screen = drag horizontally, too tall for your screen = drag vertically.

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Features:

  • Scales wallpaper to fit your screen
  • Configure wallpaper by monitor name
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Uses no CPU/GPU while idle (good for laptops)

Installation

Make sure the following dependencies are installed:

Then to build and install ScrollPaper just do:

make
make install

Configuration

ScrollPaper looks for its config file in XDG_CONFIG_HOME/scrollpaper/config.cfg, where XDG_CONFIG_HOME is usually ~/.config. An example config file is provided in this repository as example_config.cfg.

Todo/Ideas

  • Pre-scale images to use less video memory
  • Auto-detect connected/removed monitors
  • Auto-detect config changes
  • Improve Makefile

Contributors

Roliga

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