u/ImpossibleSection246

shiftpaper - native parallax wallpaper engine for Wayland

Hey all, I’ve been working on a project called shiftpaper and wanted to see if anyone is interested in testing it out.

I wanted a parallax effect for my desktop but didn't want a heavy app eating my GPU. This takes a normal 2D wallpaper, uses a CLI tool to generate a depth map once, and then hands it off to a lightweight Vulkan daemon to handle the actual mouse-tracking effect.

Works on wlr-layer-shell compositors. There's a PKGBUILD in the repo if you're on Arch.

Would love it if some of you could try it out and let me know if it breaks or if you have any suggestions for improving it.

Repo:https://github.com/CPritch/shiftpaper

u/ImpossibleSection246 — 8 days ago