Browser As Wallpaper (BAS)

A modern, cross-platform application that hosts any web page as your desktop wallpaper.

Features

• Cross-Platform: Native support for Linux (Wayland/GTK4) and Windows (WinForms/WebView2).
• Web-Based: Use any URL or local web page as a live wallpaper.
• System Tray: Minimal footprint with a system tray icon.
• Lightweight: Low resource usage using system native web engines.

Linux (Wayland)

Requires GTK4, WebKitGTK, and gtk4-layer-shell. These dependencies must be installed via your system's package manager.

Example (Arch Linux):

sudo pacman -S gtk4 webkitgtk-6.0 gtk4-layer-shell libayatana-appindicator python-gobject

1. Run the launcher:

   ./browser-as-wallpaper.sh

Windows

Requirement: .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime must be installed.

1. Run browser-as-wallpaper.exe.

Development

Prerequisites

To build this project, you need:

• Python 3
• .NET 8.0 SDK

Build Instructions

Run the build script from the project root:

python build.py

• dist/: Contains unzipped ready-to-run folders.
• release/: Contains compressed .zip archives.

Special Thanks & Appreciation

• All the open-source contributors whose libraries made this project possible.