Zaper

Zaper is an animated desktop background setter for X11

This was created as an excuse to experiment with zig and generally practice.

Inspired by paperview with a goal of getting it to work with compositors like picom.

Build

zig build -Drelease-safe

Usage

Creating a scene

mkdir ascene
cd ascene
convert -coalesce path/to/animated.gif out.bmp

Setting a scene

zap ascene..

To set a scene per monitor supply a folder for each:

# for example I have two monitors:
zap left right

Known Issues

In order to work with picom this creates a new x11 desktop to paint the animation on, I'm betting this could cause some people problems.