swaybg is a wallpaper utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the following Wayland protocols:
- wlr-layer-shell
- xdg-output
- xdg-shell
See the man page, swaybg(1), for instructions on using swaybg.
Releases are signed with B22DA89A and published on GitHub. swaybg releases are managed independently of sway releases.
swaybg is available in many distributions. Try installing the "swaybg" package for yours.
If you're interested in packaging swaybg for your distribution, stop by the IRC channel or shoot an email to sir@cmpwn.com for advice.
Install dependencies:
- meson *
- wayland
- wayland-protocols *
- cairo
- gdk-pixbuf2 **
- scdoc (optional: man pages) *
- git *
*Compile-time dep
**optional: required for background images other than PNG
Run these commands:
meson build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install