Xlivebg is a live wallpaper framework, and collection of live wallpapers, for the X window system. It provides all the groundwork necessary for displaying animated graphics with OpenGL on the root window, so that a variety of live wallpapers can be written without having to deal with how to tie everything to the X window system, how to create the OpenGL context itself, or how to present any configurable parameters of the live wallpaper to the user.

Install the xlivebg^AUR package.

The preferred user configuration is at ~/.config/xlivebg.conf, while a system configuration lives at /etc/xlivebg.conf.

A graphical configuration tool is provided as xlivebg-gui.

See Autostarting#On Xorg startup for the details on starting a xlivebg instance automatically.

When using a compositor such as xcompmgr, use the -n flag to instruct xlivebg to draw to its own desktop window and not the root window.