Direct .mp4 downloads, no signup, large free library — best fit for
this project of any of the existing entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doc drift since 48dd9b2:
- Intro now mentions the theme-watcher and that the TUI follows the
active Omarchy theme + launches as a floating window.
- Files Created table adds motion-wallpaper-theme-watcher and the
.desktop note now reflects xdg-terminal-exec --app-id=TUI.float
instead of the old Terminal=true line.
- "From App Launcher" describes the floating-window behaviour and the
colors.toml theme integration.
- "Toggle — already running" notes that Change video also picks the
target monitor and that the menu loops back after each action; saved
targets are validated against hyprctl monitors with All-monitors
fallback if the saved monitor is gone.
- New "Theme change" subsection in How It Works, plus a note on the
HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE self-recovery in the auto-pause section.
- Uninstall removes motion-wallpaper-theme-watcher.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doc drift from the last two commits:
* Intro mentioned "--auto-pause" — replaced with the external watcher,
so rewrite to describe that instead.
* Added socat to the deps table and the new motion-wallpaper-watcher
binary + SVG icon to the Files Created table.
* State file description updated to include LAST_DIR; mentions the
atomic write + safe KEY=VALUE parser.
* Autostart section replaced with the TUI-first flow (first-run
prompt, menu toggle, stop-offers-disable, disable-offers-stop),
with systemctl as an alternative.
* How It Works expanded with the setsid + uwsm-app spawn, the flock
on the stop path, and a new "Auto-pause (the watcher)" subsection
describing the Hyprland socket2 + mpv IPC bridge.
* Added a troubleshooting entry for auto-pause not firing
(fullscreen vs full-width, watcher log check).
* Uninstall removes the new watcher binary; package remove line
updated to the real deps (was still listing zenity).
Major rewrite of the runtime so the entry point is a proper gum TUI
instead of zenity dialogs, plus a handful of correctness fixes that
make it work on real Omarchy setups.
Runtime (motion-wallpaper-toggle, extracted from the installer heredoc):
* Full gum TUI: status header, monitor picker (with All monitors),
library / filesystem pickers, change-video, autostart toggle.
* State file at ~/.config/motion-wallpaper/state remembers last
video, target monitor, and last-used directory so Browse reopens
where the user was.
* Actions: toggle | start | stop | change | status.
Autostart:
* Ships a systemd user unit (motion-wallpaper.service).
* First fresh start prompts the user via gum confirm to enable it.
* Running-state menu offers a Turn autostart ON/OFF entry.
* Header shows the current autostart state.
Auto-pause:
* mpvpaper's -p is unreliable on Hyprland 0.54.x, so a small
motion-wallpaper-watcher subscribes to Hyprland's socket2 and
toggles mpv pause/resume via --input-ipc-server on fullscreen
enter/exit. Started/stopped alongside mpvpaper.
Omarchy compatibility:
* Stop path now respawns swaybg pointed at
~/.config/omarchy/current/background via setsid uwsm-app (the way
Omarchy autostarts it), instead of execing hyprpaper which isn't
present. Falls back to hyprpaper on non-Omarchy Hyprland setups.
* mpvpaper is launched under setsid uwsm-app so it survives the
Walker-spawned terminal closing.
Install / UX:
* Installer only invokes sudo/yay when packages are actually
missing, so reinstall is quiet.
* Dropped zenity; added gum + socat + libnotify.
* Custom SVG icon in the hicolor theme so Walker shows a proper
tile. Installer restarts elephant.service so the new entry/icon
appear without logout.
* .desktop flipped to Terminal=true so launchers spawn a terminal
for the TUI.
* Watcher lookup falls back to the script's own dir when PATH is
minimal (launcher-spawned terminals).
Bug fixes:
* Monitor picker was sending row-major data to zenity as one cell;
fixed (kept the correct form for the new gum picker).
* load_state / action_status no longer leak a non-zero exit code
from trailing test expressions.
* Stop path cleans up stray hyprpaper that would otherwise win the
background layer.
