mpvpaper kept running over the new theme's static wallpaper because
nothing was watching the omarchy-theme symlink. Add a small sibling
script that polls ~/.config/omarchy/current/background and, when the
target changes, runs `motion-wallpaper-toggle stop` — which tears down
mpvpaper and respawns swaybg with the new symlink target so the new
theme's bg becomes visible.
- motion-wallpaper-theme-watcher: polls readlink every 2s, exits silently
on non-Omarchy systems where the symlink doesn't exist.
- toggle: spawn alongside the auto-pause watcher; kill alongside it.
- wallpaper.sh: install the new binary.
The previous check trusted $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$HIS/ existing, but the
directory and its socket files can remain on disk after the session dies.
On a real run the stale signature still had a dir, so the guard passed
and hyprctl silently failed again.
ensure_hyprland_env now queries `hyprctl instances` — the source of truth
for live sessions — and rewrites HIS if ours isn't in the list. Watcher
mirrors the same logic.
Also: drop the outdated "zenity" mention from the installer header.
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.
- Changed suggested keybind from SUPER+W (conflicts with Close window
in Omarchy) to SUPER ALT+W
- Stop hyprpaper/swaybg before starting mpvpaper so the video wallpaper
is actually visible
- Restart hyprpaper when toggling motion wallpaper off so the normal
wallpaper is restored
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
