2.4 - We're now a video player!

Thanks to the contribution by: @Sandesh2007 @CalfMoon @darth62969 @rogeraird and other developers, we are happy to announce a new version where you can play videos as your wallpapers!

New in this release:

• 📹 Added mpvpaper backed to play videos as wallpapers with support for multi-monitors and pausing videos.
• 🔍 Added a search bar to quickly filter your files.
• ✨ Redesigned UI. Now, the file controls are at the top and the backend controls are at the bottom.
• 🎮 Added UI controls for transition options in swww.
• 💻 Multi-monitor support is re-implemented and also added to swaybg.
• 🔨 Random wallpapers no longer repeat and other related bugs fixed.
• 🌎 Updated translations.
• 🔧 Various minor fixes.

For package maintainers: following python libraries were added as new dependencies: imageio, imageio-ffmpeg, screeninfo

2.3

New in this release

Many thanks for great contributions by @nikolaizombie1 @Astrono5 @Prepodobnuy @PhilippHeuer @Naragiri @bitSheriff @enticedwanderer @jjramsey and other contributors!!!

• Adding new user argument: --folder to set the folder #71
• Adding new user argument: --state-file to set the location of state file #71
• Adding new user argument: --list to list current wallpapers and monitors #55
• Adding new user argument: --wallpaper to set a wallpaper without running GUI. #66
• Adding optional split of configuration into main config and state file. Set use_xdg_state = True in config.ini. #71
• Adding Belorussian and Spanish translations #74 #58
• Adding Esc as exit button #60
• Adding support for swww-transition-fps #65
• Various fixes #40 #62 #76

2.2

Thanks to the great contribution by @nikolaizombie1 this version brings support of the hyprpaper backend on Hyprland, as well as some new filters and features!

New in this release

• Adding support of the hyprpaper backend #7
• Adding Options button that unites various filters
• Adding none backend to use the GUI as a filepicker for post_command #33
• Adding Show only gifs filter #41
• Adding Show hidden filter #38
• Adding the ability to set the number of columns in the UI with config entry: number_of_columns = 3 #43
• Support for shortened paths in config #44
• Various small bug fixes

2.1.2

This is a correction version that fixes various issues and introduces one new feature!

New in this release

• Ability to include or exclude hidden files using . key. #38
• Reworking how --random works #4
• Fixing swaybg bug #34
• Fixing sequencing in post command #36
• Fixing swww deprecation warning #39
• Fixing error with the --fill option #40
• And some other fixes

2.1

New in this release

• Support for swww transition options. These are available in your config now:

swww_transition_type = any
swww_transition_step = 90
swww_transition_angle = 0
swww_transition_duration = 2

• Support for post command that runs after the wallpaper has been changed. For example, you can add this to your config and you can use $wallpaper as a parameter:

post_command = echo "My new wallpaper: $wallpaper "

• Fixing random button
• Fixing bug on non-rendering images (now they are rendered as black images)
• Adding manpage
• New icon
• New documentation site: https://anufrievroman.gitbook.io/waypaper
• Various minor fixes

2.0.4

Minor correction version

• Improved handling of installed backends, which fixes bug #23
• Minor improvements and refactoring

2.0.3

New in this release

• Support for .webp, .bmp, .tiff, and other formats (on the backends where they are supported, like swww) #19
• New config option swww_transition = left allows setting a transition type on swww #20
• Lots of code improvements and optimizations thanks to the work by @Thaodan

Happy New Year!

2.0.2

New in this release

• Added ability to translate interface and several translations en, fr, ru, pl and de (thanks to @Rdeisenroth )
• Added icons and desktop entries

2.0

Version 2.0 signifies the somewhat stable version of the program, where all the planned features are mostly implemented and from here I plan to mostly address bugs and improve stability.

New in this version

• Tooltips
• Improved scrolling with the mouse
• Improved behavior with keyboard navigation
• Fix for the errors related to killall on some platforms #8

1.9

New in this version

• Support for different wallpaper for different monitors (with swww) #5
• Support for --random key and Random button for randomly assigning a wallpaper #6
• Minor improvements