swaybg is a wallpaper utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the wlr-layer-shell protocol and wl_output version 4.

See the man page, swaybg(1), for instructions on using swaybg.

Releases are signed with E88F5E48 and published on GitHub. swaybg releases are managed independently of sway releases.

swaybg is available in many distributions. Try installing the "swaybg" package for yours.

Install dependencies:

• meson *
• wayland
• wayland-protocols *
• cairo
• gdk-pixbuf2 (optional: image formats other than PNG)
• scdoc (optional: man pages) *
• git (optional: version information) *

* Compile-time dep

Run these commands:

meson build/
ninja -C build/
sudo ninja -C build/ install