pihkaal's wallpaper

An animated and interactive wallpaper I'm building for myself, designed to run on Hyprland.

What it does

• Animated stars
• Metaballs-like effect with the "clouds"

Limitations

• The wallpaper will only work on one monitor and on 1920x1080px for now

Stack

• C
• Raylib
• Hyprland

Quick start

Build and install

$ make

# generate distance field with 100px ball radius (needed to offset vertically the effect)
# NOTE:  I already ship a generated distance field
# USAGE: distance_field_generator <mask_path> <output_path> <ball_radius>
$ ./distance_field_generator ./assets/textures/background_mask.png ./assets/textures/background_distance_field.png 100

# install
$ make install

# uninstall
$ make uninstall

Run as wallpaper

You'll need to install hyprwinwrap, then add this to your hyprland configuration:

plugin {
    hyprwinwrap {
        class = pkl-wallpaper
    }
}

Run as debug

Even if you've configured the app to always run as wallpaper using hyprwinwrap, you can still run it in debug mode:

$ DEBUG=1 ./pkl-wallpaper