**Ocean** (Parallel waves -- Squares and triangles

**Fire** (Free circles -- Hexagons and triangles)

**Forest** (Free triangles -- Triangles)

**Sky** (Concentric circles -- Hexagons)

**Blood** (Crossed stripes -- Hexagons and triangles)

This project is written in pure Rust and aims to provide a cross-platform utility for generating random abstract wallpapers. It is fast and memory-efficient enough to be able to run in the background at regular intervals

The full source code is hosted on GitHub, and so is this website. Contributions in any form (pull requests, feature requests, bug reports, etc...) are welcome.

How to install

From source

Clone the repository and cd inside.

Use cargo build --release --features nice,set-wallpaper ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽*⁾ to create the wallrnd executable.

Make sure to put wallrnd in your $PATH.

From `crates.io`

run cargo install wallrnd --features nice,set-wallpaper ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽*⁾

Make sure your $PATH contains ~/.cargo/bin.

And then ?

Run wallrnd --image path/to/image.svg --config path/to/configuration.toml --set --nice ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ to create a new wallpaper.

A configuration file is provided under /setup/wallrnd.toml.

To generate wallpapers at regular intervals, you can create a new cronjob that calls wallrnd. Examples of this are available in /setup.

Alternative tools

Online

Scripts

flopp/RandomWallpapers

Apps

Tapet

Do you know of another similar tool ? You can suggest it here

(1) nice enables lowering the process priority. It is optionnal.
(2) set-wallpaper enables writing a configuration variable to change the current wallpaper. It is optionnal.
(3) make-png is also available although not recommended if your system supports svg.
(4) --set only available if set-wallpaper selected
(5) --nice only available if nice selected
(6) image extension can be png if make-png selected
(*) your compiler should be the latest stable release