1.7 - Starting Engines

What's new:

• Allow selecting the identifier as an output
  • Identifier is also now shown more clearly with "--help-output/-d"
• Improve render loop communication with the Wayland compositor
  • This has fixed more issues with the Nvidia proprietary drivers
• Add more documentation on the options "--auto-pause/-p" and "--auto-stop/-s"

1.6 - Slaying Dragons

What's new:

• Fix support for the Nvidia proprietary drivers
  • This required 3 edits found here: eaaed11 408092d 9a03925
• Change EGL errors into a more readable string
• Improve memory safety
• Reformat code and other various fixes
• Add detection of swww to the list of conflicting wallpapers
  • Thanks @kfatyuip ! #69

1.5 - Shooting Stars

What's new:

• Allow selecting multiple outputs at once without using "*" like: "DP-2 HDMI-A-1 DP-1"
• Allow using the mpv option "--playlist" to load media
• Load mpv options with the mpv option "config=yes" instead of manually loading
• Override user configs with options passed with "--mpv-options/-o"
• Fix vo=libmpv not being set when empty for mpv 0.38
  • Thanks @leaty ! #67

1.4 - Setting Stars

What's new:

• New "--help-output/-d" option to show outputs without "mpvpaper -v a a"
• Improve verbose and error messages
• Move and fix up EGL and mpv inits
• Small cleanups for "pausing" and "stopping" behavior
• Fix int overflow for getopt_long() on ARM
  • Thanks @ddxtanx ! #49

Notes:

Since the render loop rewrite, some Nvidia GPU users are still finding that mpvpaper isn't working.
Unfortunately, I haven't found a good fix or even a workaround for this problem.
So as a convenience, I'm including a zip file for the source code from the last commit f65700a that worked for those users.

Personal note:

First off, 500 GitHub stars ★!
I'm glad so many enjoy this weird little "mpv wrapper" that started just as a fork of glpaper!

But I haven't really been running mpvpaper daily for some time now.
So because of that, this project hasn't seen any major developments or testing as of late.
With that said, I feel mpvpaper is already in a good place; with all the features I wanted to implement.

As always, if you have an issue, I'll try my best to address them in issues
And if you have a cool idea or feature, you can always make a pull request

1.3 - Scaling Operations

What's new:

• Ability to display to all outputs with "*"
  • Thanks @mstoeckl ! #26
• Support for outputs with scaling
  • Thanks @y-fujii ! y-fujii@a13273d
• Replaced Wayland protocols xdg_output with wl_output v4
  • This might break unofficial support for non-wlroots based Wayland compositors, such as KWin a5a4750
• Updated GLAD library and Wayland protocols
  • Not required, but it's been 2 years 6b0f7a8
• Some code cleanup and various fixes
  • Thanks @mstoeckl ! #23

Update: I found a fatal race condition 5dcdfc7 when monitors go to sleep, so I updated the release.

1.2.1 - Slight Problem

What's new:

• Deprecated MPV_EVENT_PAUSE, MPV_EVENT_UNPAUSE, MPV_EVENT_IDLE replaced
  • See: #19
• mpv's "idle" option is now always off/no
  • Too many issues, this should help some that have been crashing lately
• More various fixes
  • Outlined here: 50c0c8d

1.2 - Ironing Out

What's new:

• New man page (maintainers please add)
• New "--slideshow/-n" option
• Improve usage text
• Various fixes 2ebddae d8e5f23 275410e

1.1 - Saving Resources

An update inspired by "Wallpaper Engine" to save resources

I hope this allows for more prolonged daily use

What's new:

• 2 new options "--auto-pause/-p" and "--auto-stop/-s"
• 2 watch lists "pauselist" and "stoplist"
• New program called "mpvpaper-holder" to facilitate "stopping" mpvpaper
• User configs in "~/.config/mpv/" are now loaded
• mpv terminal mode is enabled by default for better controls
  • set "terminal=no" mpv option if you don't want that
• Various minor improvements

What's auto, pause, and stop:

• auto: automagically pause/stop if the wallpaper is *hidden.
• pause: literally just pauses mpv to save processing power.
• stop: "suspends" mpvpaper to a separate holder program called "mpvpaper-holder".
  This saves not just processing power, but RAM usage as well.

What's a "pauselist" and "stoplist":

It's a list of user defined programs that, if running, will cause mpvpaper to **pause/stop.

To utilize:

1. Create a text file in "~/.config/mpvpaper/" with
   the file name "pauselist" and/or "stoplist" respectively.
2. Add programs that can be found with the "pidof" command into the list.
   Make sure the programs are separated by either spaces or newlines.
   For example: "wine firefox steam"

Notes:

*Limitations of automagic:

There's a feature of Wayland called a "surface frame callback".
With this feature a Wayland compositor can tell mpvpaper to
draw/render only when it makes sense to do so.
And one reason mpvpaper might not draw/render is if it's "hidden".
This is the magic behind the automagic pause/stop options.

But "hidden", at least with Sway, only means if there is a fullscreen window
in the way of the wallpaper. mpvpaper will still draw/render even if there
is a normal window blocking the wallpaper view entirely.

**More on lists:

• mpvpaper will automatically resume only after all the programs
  in the watch lists are no longer running.
• If there are programs running from both lists, stopping will always win out.
• Programs added into a list at runtime will be ignored, unless restarted or "stopped".

Misc points:

• When mpvpaper is resuming after "stopping", mpvpaper should begin where it left off.
  Both in terms of time position and playlist position(if not shuffled).
• There is a small time delay(1-2 secs.) with the automagic options
  as it uses time to calculate when to act.

1.0 - Stable Enough

This is the first release of mpvpaper

If you found a bug or would like to request a feature:

• https:/GhostNaN/mpvpaper/issues