How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

Want to use animated wallpapers on Ubuntu desktop? Well, you can try the new awesome wallpaper manager called Komorebi.

Komorebi is an open-source animated wallpaper manager for Linux. With it, you can set your desktop background with:

  • a picture with time & date.
  • a video wallpaper.
  • a web page.

The software ships with a list of default animated wallpapers. And there’s a Wallpaper Creator allows to manually create animated wallpapers from pictures, videos, or web pages.

How to Install and Use Komorebi in Ubuntu:

You can download the 64-bit deb, so far it’s “komorebi-2.1-64-bit.deb” from the release page:

Komorebi Releases

Then install the package either via Gdebi (install it via Ubuntu Software) or by running command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/komorebi-*.deb; sudo apt-get -f install

How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

Once installed, launch Komorebi from your software launcher:

How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

Then right-click on desktop, and choose Change wallpaper. There you can change animated wallpapers and do some basic settings.

How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

Manually create animated wallpapers:

The software offers Wallpaper Creator utility. Open it from software launcher and you can do following steps to create an animated wallpaper from pic, video, or a web page.

1. When Wallpaper Creator launches:

  • type a name for the new wallpaper.
  • choose source type: picture, video, or web page.
  • choose source file directory.
  • finally you must choose a thumbnail image.

How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

2. In next window, do some date & time, and other settings.

3. Due to permissions issue, you MUST move the new created wallpaper to /System/Resources/Komorebi/ as the last window prompts:

How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

Open terminal from software launcher and run command as the picture shows you. In my case it’s:

How to Set Animated Wallpaper Background in Ubuntu 18.04

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