 Are you one of those people that spent all your time trying to customize your Linux desktop? Maybe you're one of those people that you're always searching for the perfect GTK theme and you're always tweaking the fonts and looking for the perfect icon set. And of course, wallpapers. Everybody loves wallpapers. Well, today I wanna take your desktop customization to the next level. I'm gonna share with you a command line utility that allows you to set video as your wallpaper. That's right. No longer are you stuck with just a static image of that Japanese anime girl as your wallpaper. Now you can actually have a video of a Japanese anime girl as your wallpaper. So the name of the program that I wanna talk about is called Wall Set. And it is hosted over on GitHub and of course I'm gonna link to the GitHub page in the show description. Wall Set is a wallpaper manager that makes it possible to put video as wallpaper. Now that's not all it does. It also just sets regular images as wallpapers as well. But I don't know why you would install Wall Set if you were gonna use just standard images because there's other utilities you could use other than Wall Set for that. But Wall Set has a number of dependencies but most of these dependencies are probably already on your system. It requires FFMPEG. I'm sure FFMPEG is already on your system. FEH, which is another wallpaper setter slash image viewer. But FEH is usually on most people's systems. Image magic almost certainly is on your system. XRander should be on your system. XDG dash utils should be there. Bash of course should be there. And SID should be there. So even though it's got some dependencies, chances are you won't actually have to install any of the dependencies. Probably all of them will be already on your machine. And then all you need to do is you need to get clone this repository. Then CD into the new directory that you just cloned and then run the install script. And then once you do that, here is the man page basically posted here on the GitHub. It has a number of flags and options. And let me pull up a terminal and show you Wall Set in action. So let me switch over to my desktop. And as you can see, my desktop is just using a standard static image as a wallpaper. Now let me pull up a terminal because Wall Set again is a command line utility. Let me clear the screen. And let me show you Wall Set, how to set a video as wallpaper because you guys probably are not gonna wanna set static images when using Wall Set. You're probably gonna use other utilities, but you wanna run Wall Set space dash dash video. That is the flag to actually set a video as your wallpaper. The video has to be MP4. It's not gonna work with other formats like if it's a WebM or something like that. It won't work. It needs to be an MP4. And I know I have this particular MP4 on my system. I have stallmanishungry.mp4. And let me run that. It's preparing the video. Let me switch to an empty workspace. And this is just a very short MP4 of Richard Stallman eating something. Now let's try a different video. Now you can't just set another video because you're gonna have more than one video, more than one MP4 trying to take over your desktop at the same time they're gonna be competing. So you actually have to stop the first video first. So what you need to do is run Wall Set space dash dash quit. And it says terminated. And if you go back and check the MP4, you'll notice it's no longer playing. It's just a frozen image. It's just frozen where it terminated that particular video. And now you can set a new video. So Wall Set space dash dash video. And I think I had this video here on the system, sjwtriggered.mp4 and let's see how this looks. Yeah, this is really kind of cool. I could really come up with some interesting animated wallpapers using this Wall Set utility. Let me go back to the terminal and once again, let me go ahead and quit Wall Set. The last thing I wanna show you guys is because I know so many of you guys are weebs. You're gonna want to see some Japanese anime in action because that's what this is all about, right? It's all about does anime work in this thing? So here's just a short clip I pulled off of YouTube. It's like a 10 or 15 second anime video just to see if it actually works and it works fine, right? You guys, if you start using this thing and you put the right things on your desktops and if you could take a screenshot as an animated GIF, you guys would be the heroes over at r slash Unix porn. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank Michael, Gabe, Pablo, Nate, Corbinion, Mitchell, Entropy UK, John, Arch5530, Chris, Chuck, DJ, Donnie, Dylan, George, Lewis, Omri, Paul, Robert, Sean, Tobias, and Willie. They are my highest tiered patrons over on Patreon. Without these guys, this episode about this command line utility called Wall Set, it wouldn't have been possible. 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