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Arch Linux
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I'm curious as to whether it's possible to run a windowed app as a desktop widget or wallpaper on DMS. My buddy gave me an Asus Zenbook Pro and it's got one of those Screenpads where the touchpad is a second monitor. It's not terribly useful on Linux without the stupid Asus Windows-only apps... but I discovered that with the right fractal wallpaper and the Cava visualizer desktop widget, it's absolutely dope looking as hell.
But while Cava is awesome, I wanted to run a much more complex visualizer as full-screen on this thing, which just appears as a second monitor. I know I can add a widget to play video, but what I wanted was either to run this app KarmaViz (a Python based windowed app) as my wallpaper or as a desktop widget. It's launched via the terminal but it's not a terminal app, so just using the plugin that displays the output of terminal commands won't work.
Is there a way to do this in DMS? I'm not a hardcore Arch/Linux person, I'm mainly MacOS but I'm trying to migrate, and I just don't know enough about the stack of Wayland/Niri/DMS to even know what the right questions to ask are. And this is a silly thing to do but it just looks cool.
Thanks for any advice or pointers in the right direction to look at! I absolutely adore Dank and it's replaced Ubuntu on all my Linux boxes now. 🖤
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Compositor
Niri
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Distribution
Arch Linux
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DankInstaller
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dms doctor -vC
Details
No need, just a questionDescription
I'm curious as to whether it's possible to run a windowed app as a desktop widget or wallpaper on DMS. My buddy gave me an Asus Zenbook Pro and it's got one of those Screenpads where the touchpad is a second monitor. It's not terribly useful on Linux without the stupid Asus Windows-only apps... but I discovered that with the right fractal wallpaper and the Cava visualizer desktop widget, it's absolutely dope looking as hell.
But while Cava is awesome, I wanted to run a much more complex visualizer as full-screen on this thing, which just appears as a second monitor. I know I can add a widget to play video, but what I wanted was either to run this app KarmaViz (a Python based windowed app) as my wallpaper or as a desktop widget. It's launched via the terminal but it's not a terminal app, so just using the plugin that displays the output of terminal commands won't work.
Is there a way to do this in DMS? I'm not a hardcore Arch/Linux person, I'm mainly MacOS but I'm trying to migrate, and I just don't know enough about the stack of Wayland/Niri/DMS to even know what the right questions to ask are. And this is a silly thing to do but it just looks cool.
Thanks for any advice or pointers in the right direction to look at! I absolutely adore Dank and it's replaced Ubuntu on all my Linux boxes now. 🖤
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