wallblur

wallblur is a simple shell script that creates a faux blurred background effect for your linux desktop without needing a compositor.

Getting Started

Dependencies

In order to use the script, you will need to make sure you have imagemagick, feh and wmctrl installed.

If not, you can do so by executing:

sudo apt install imagemagick wmctrl feh

pywal Users

If you are a pywal user, you might want to use the "wallblur.sh" script. It will automatically read your current wallpaper from the pywal cache.

non-pywal Users

If you do not use pywal, you need to use the "wallblur_nopywal.sh" script.
Specify your current wallpaper as an input argument like so:

path/to/wallblur_nopywal.sh ~/wallpapers/mywallpaper.jpg &

Note

Make sure that you stop any existing application that is responsible for setting your wallpaper.

Running wallblur

You can run wallblur by running the following command:

path/to/wallblur.sh &

If you would like to start wallblur on startup automatically, assuming you are on an X11 windowing system, add the following line to your .xprofile file:

path/to/wallblur.sh &

Replacing path/to/ with the actual path where the script is residing.

If you are using i3wm, you can add this line to your config:

exec --no-startup-id sh -c "path/to/wallblur.sh &"