Dynamic Wallpaper Engine

A wallpaper plugin for KDE Plasma that continuously updates the desktop background based on the current time in your location.

Building From Git

In order to build this wallpaper plugin from source code, you need to install a couple of prerequisites

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S cmake extra-cmake-modules git plasma-framework qt5-base qt5-declarative \
    qt5-location libexif libheif

Fedora:

sudo dnf install cmake extra-cmake-modules git kf5-kpackage-devel kf5-plasma-devel \
    kf5-ki18n-devel qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtdeclarative-devel qt5-qtlocation-devel \
    libexif-devel libheif-devel

Ubuntu:

sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules git libkf5package-dev libkf5plasma-dev \
    libkf5i18n-dev qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev qtpositioning5-dev gettext \
    qml-module-qtpositioning libexif-dev libheif-dev

Once all prerequisites are installed, you need to grab the source code

git clone https://github.com/zzag/plasma5-wallpapers-dynamic.git
cd plasma5-wallpapers-dynamic

Configure the build

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib \
    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF

Now trigger the build by running the following command

make

To install run

sudo make install

How to Use It

Right-click a blank area of the desktop and choose "Configure Desktop...", select "Dynamic" wallpaper type and click the Apply button.

How to Create a Dynamic Wallpaper

This engine ships with a command-line tool that one could use to create a dynamic wallpaper from a collection of jpeg or png images. See kdynamicwallpaperbuilder.

How to Use Dynamic Wallpapers for macOS

Since dynamic wallpapers for macOS and this plugin are incompatible, you need to use a script to convert dynamic wallpapers.

curl https://git.io/JJkjd -sL > dynamicwallpaperconverter
chmod +x dynamicwallpaperconverter

Once you've downloaded the dynamicwallpaperconverter script, you can start converting wallpapers

./dynamicwallpaperconverter --crossfade file.heic

After the command above has finished its execution, you should see a file in the current working directory named 'wallpaper.heic', which can be fed into this plugin.