sheila

sheila lets you use movies as animated wallpapers for your Wayland session.

Installation

sheila is written in Rust and published on crates.io:

cargo install sheila

Usage

sheila consists of a client and a server.

To start the server, run:

sheila server

While the server is running, you can send it movie files to play:

sheila client play --monitor DP-1 movie0.mp4 movie1.mp4

Use the --random option to have the server play a random movie:

sheila client play --monitor DP-1 --random movie0.mp4 movie1.mp4

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