Found a way to change Hyprland wallpaper without hyprpaper

[1NEGROUP]

I know in /usr/share/hypr/ you have a few wallpapers that Hyprland starts with, wall0.png, wall1.png, wall2.png and you can replace one of those pictures and rename it to wall0,1, or 2.png to get the wallpaper to change. Out of Curiosity, because I actually like random backgrounds, is there a way to increase the amount of backgrounds besides just 3 or is there something in the code that sets this?

Also I am sure someone might ask, I would rather not bloat my os with more unnecessary software meaning i really dont want to install hyprpaper

[yaeby]

Hyprland itself does not impose a hard limit on the number of wallpapers, they come from the default configuration, which only references three wp. To add more u can place additional wallpapers in /usr/share/hypr/ and name them sequentially (wall3.png, wall4.png). Then modify the exec command in your hyprland.conf to set the wallpaper dynamically exec = cp /path/to/your/wallpapers/wall3.png /usr/share/hypr/wall0.png.

To randomize wp, u can create a script that selects a wallpaper randomly and copies it to one of the default wallpaper names, like this:

#!/bin/bash
WALLPAPER_DIR="$HOME/Pictures/wallpapers"
WALLPAPER=$(find "$WALLPAPER_DIR" -type f | shuf -n 1)
cp "$WALLPAPER" /usr/share/hypr/wall0.png

Make if executable chmod +x ~/.config/hypr/change_wallpaper.sh and add to hyprland.conf to run at startup.

exec = ~/.config/hypr/change_wallpaper.sh

Or u can try using symbolic link.

[vaxerski]

dont do this

[1NEGROUP]

Are you replying to me or yaeby?
and whats the technical reason not to do this?