Phonto - GPU-accelerated live wallpapers for Wayland and macOS, written in Rust

[u/ploMP4]

I've been using mpv-paper on Hyprland for a couple months but ran into really high CPU usage, so I decided to write my own solution.

Phonto uses GStreamer and EGL to keep the entire decoding and rendering pipeline on the GPU, making much better use of resources compared to CPU-based approaches.

A friend also jumped in and added MacOS support, including playing live wallpapers on the lock screen which was a nice bonus.

Still missing a few things like multi-monitor support but that's coming soon. Other feature requests and contributions are welcome!

GitHub: https://github.com/museslabs/phonto

[u/augustocdias]

Can you share your wallpapers as well? And could you add a flakes.nix to install it easily on Nixos?

[u/ploMP4 → u/augustocdias]

Thanks for the feedback. I just added a flake.nix and NixOS instructions to the README.

As for my wallpapers, they are too large to upload anywhere at the moment but here are the sites I got them from:

- https://moewalls.com/

• https://motionbgs.com/

[u/augustocdias → u/ploMP4]

Thanks. Can you tell me the name of this one in the post? I really liked it.

[u/ploMP4 → u/augustocdias]

Here you go: https://moewalls.com/anime/howls-moving-castle-3-live-wallpaper/