🚀 How to Install: Linux Wallpaper Engine

📦 System Requirements

To compile and run this, you'll need:

OpenGL 3.3 support
CMake
LZ4, Zlib
SDL2
FFmpeg
X11 or Wayland
Xrandr (for X11)
GLFW3, GLEW, GLUT, GLM
MPV
PulseAudio
FFTW3

To use this program, you'll need:

Official Wallpaper Engine's wallpaper assets (via Steam)
1. Let see this: How to install - Wallpaper Engine

Install the required dependencies on Ubuntu/Debian-based systems:

Ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libgl-dev libglew-dev freeglut3-dev libsdl2-dev liblz4-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libxxf86vm-dev libglm-dev libglfw3-dev libmpv-dev mpv libmpv1 libpulse-dev libpulse0 libfftw3-dev

Ubuntu 24.04

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libgl-dev libglew-dev freeglut3-dev libsdl2-dev liblz4-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libxxf86vm-dev libglm-dev libglfw3-dev libmpv-dev mpv libmpv2 libpulse-dev libpulse0 libfftw3-dev

🐧 Arch Linux Users

You can install this directly from the AUR using your favorite AUR helper:

yay -S linux-wallpaperengine-git

This installs the latest development version.

Build from Source

Clone the repo:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine.git
cd linux-wallpaperengine

Build it:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Once the build process is finished, this should create a new output folder containing the app and all the required support files to run.

✅ Remember: Place the assets folder next to the built binary if it isn’t detected automatically.

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