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[Help] display managers with transparent backgrounds, showing the desktop itself? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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I want a display manager that shows the desktop as the background, instead of a background image or video. I'm thinking of auto-logging in on boot, and adding another startup command to Hyprland to lock the desktop and show the display manger. My searches didn't yield anything. The closest I could find is hyprlock which blurs the desktop, but that's just a lock screen & not a proper display manager.

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[–] kanera@feddit.cl 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

u could use an custom bash file that screenshots ur desktops, blurs it, and then sources it as ur lockscreen from a config file, in bash it could go:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

bg=~/.lockscreen.png
grim -o $bg
convert $bg -blur 0x8 $bg 
hyprlock
rm $bg

havent tried it yet, but as long as ur sourcing the ~/.lockscreen.png on ur config file, or u launch ur locking program with an argument to use whatever u used as a background (and that way u can use mktmp instead of throwing it on ur home folder) it should work. Just try the commands b4 executing it since i wrote this from my bed on a saturday and my brain is half working.

i just used hyprlock as an example, since u said ur using hyprland, but u can use whatever ofc, I myself use swaylock.