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Switching Wallpapers With Hyprpaper in Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles on Fedora 42

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This post is immedidate follow up for https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/354995/index.html . Hyprpaper is a fast Wayland wallpaper utility, primarily designed for use with Hyprland, that supports dynamic wallpaper changes via Inter-Process Communication (IPC). It enables users to switch wallpapers quickly and efficiently through commands or scripts. The "IPC" part refers to the mechanism that allows Hyprpaper to communicate with other programs and scripts, enabling real-time changes to the wallpaper.

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dba477 ·
Switching Wallpapers With Hyprpaper in Hyprland installed via Hyprland Starter and Dotfiles Installer on openSUSE Tumbleweed

Start with Setup Hyprland via Hyprland Starter and Dotfiles Installer (Stephan Raabe) on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Our goal is to reproduce on Tumbleweed "Switching Wallpapers With Hyprpaper in Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles on Fedora 42"@Lxer.com.The first step on Tumbleweed is supposed to be adding the X11:Wayland repository. See for details

https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/06/switching-wallpapers-wit...

UPDATE as of 06/27/25

It might happen that all what Dotfiles Installer does for you would be properly setup folder ~/.config/hypr/ due to Dotfiles Installer appears to be work in progress.

Then proceed as follows:-

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This workaround was tested on Tumbleweed 
with Dual DE Gnome && KDE Plasma 6.4.1

# Step 1
sudo zypper install hyprland   
                        waybar 
                  rofi-wayland 
                         kitty 
                         dunst 
                        thunar 
   xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland 
                   qt6-wayland 
                     hyprpaper 
                      hyprlock 
                           vim 
                     fastfetch 
                            jq 
                 brightnessctl 
                NetworkManager 
                   wireplumber
# Step 2
$ sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:Wayland/openS... 

$ sudo zypper refresh
# hyprland-qtutils  provides hyprctl on openSUSE Tumbleweed
$ sudo zypper install hyprland-qtutils
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Install via Dotfiles Installer (Stephan Raabe) on Fedora 42 Dual DE (Gnome && KDE Plasma)

$ sudo dnf5 install hyprctl

Setup kgx via Copr Repos according to Google's AI directives

Install and run Dotfiles Installer per Stephan Raabe

$ sudo reboot

Login via ssh to F42 Dual DE instance.

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Then run :-

sudo dnf5 install 
       unzip
        git 
        gum 
   hyprland 
     waybar 
rofi-wayland 
      kitty 
      dunst 
     thunar 
  xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland 
  qt5-qtwayland 
  qt6-qtwayland 
      fastfetch 
             jq 
  brightnessctl 
 NetworkManager 
    wireplumber 
        wlogout

$ sudo reboot
$ sudo dnf5 install hyprpaper
$ sudo dnf5 install hyprlock
Login via ssh to F42 Dual DE instance

  
# Update hyprpaper.conf
Add line
ipc = true  
# Update monitor.conf
monitor = ,1920x1080@144,0x0,1

$ sudo reboot
Now Hyprlnad with ML4W Dotfiles is ready to run switchWallpapers.sh 
#!/bin/bash

WALLPAPER_DIRECTORY=~/Pictures/Wallpapers
WALLPAPER=$(find "$WALLPAPER_DIRECTORY" -type f | shuf -n 1)
hyprctl hyprpaper preload "$WALLPAPER"
hyprctl hyprpaper wallpaper "Virtual-1,$WALLPAPER"
sleep 1
hyprctl hyprpaper unload unused
Setup above was tested on Fedora 42 with Dual DE in virtual environment

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