gtk-layer-shell wrapper

[UltraBlackLinux]

Hey there, coming from wayfire I really miss the background-view plugin. It takes any binary path, and moves it's window into the desktop background layer. I did a lot of searching but could not find any comparable tool that would allow me to use the wallpaper-engine window as wallpaper. Could you implement a wrapper that can do exactly that? Thanks!

[vaxerski]

you mean something alongside xwinwrap?

[UltraBlackLinux]

yeah that would be perfect!

[vaxerski]

you got mpvpaper but I don't think there is one for wayland for general apps, dk what would be the better approach, a utility or just function in hl

[UltraBlackLinux]

a general utility would probably be best, but hyprland doesn't sacrifice visuals ;)

[vaxerski]

the problem with a general utility would be that in my opinion it'd have to be a separate wayland compositor. I don't think there's a simple way to do that otherwise. A compositor that launches the app, renders it, opens a LS and plops the contents onto the LS.

Maybe a project for some day.

[vaxerski]

now available as an official plugin: https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-plugins/tree/main/hyprwinwrap

[UltraBlackLinux]

thank you so much!