Hidamari - video wallpaper for Linux

Hidamari is a program for showing videos on the desktop. Free and open source program

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Autostart after login;
Apply static wallpaper with blur effect (Video frame can be applied as system wallpaper, look great in GNOME (currently GNOME exclusive, support for other DE might be added if requested);
Detect maximized window and fullscreen mode (Automatically pauses playback when maximized window or full screen mode is detected (currently X11 only);
Volume control;
Mute/Pause the playback anytime with just 2 clicks;
I’m feeling lucky (Randomly select and play a video);
Hardware accelerated video decoding (Use vlc as backend (currently HW acceleration doesn’t work with Nvidia+Wayland combination);
Gnome Wayland support;
Multi-monitor support;
Streaming URL support (Use yt-dlp as backend, tested with YouTube videos);
Webpage as wallpaper (Theoretically it can be anything from a normal webpage to Unity/Godot WebGL games, be creative).

The software Hidamari is available for installation on Linux.

Installation method	OS
Flatpak	Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

*Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE)

Install Software via Flatpak package

flatpak install flathub io.github.jeffshee.Hidamari

Language Interface:	English
Description version:	3.3
Developer:	Jeff Shee
Programming language:	Python
License:	GPL v3
Software website:	github.com/jeffshee/hidamari