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How to Set Live Wallpapers on Linux with Hanabi (Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro)
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Nov 30, 2024
Transform your Linux desktop with stunning live wallpapers using Hanabi. In this step-by-step guide, I’ll show you how to set up Hanabi to bring dynamic live wallpapers to your favorite Linux distribution. I’ll also share some top online resources for finding incredible live wallpapers to make your desktop stand out. Note: Hanabi is a Gnome extension, so you'll need the Gnome desktop environment to follow along. 🧑💻 Commands 🧑💻 sudo apt install git meson libgtk-4-media-gstreamer git clone https://github.com/jeffshee/gnome-ext-hanabi.git cd gnome-ext-hanabi ./run.sh install 🕔 Sections 🕔 00:00 Introduction 01:12 Installation 02:38 Setup 03:52 Not Supported Fix 05:45 Resources 07:02 Conclusion 🎦 For more, visit 🎦 https://linuxh2o.com
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anavi is one of those things that you
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must have in your learnings distribution
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because using it you can apply live
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wallpapers to your desktop like these
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ones back in the days live wallpapers
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used to be very popular in phones
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especially in Android smartphones but
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like everything else the trend FedEd
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away but with hanavi you can get it back
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at least onto your learning desktop so
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this video we will see how to get hanavi
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and its required dependencies second we
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will set it up and fix some of the known
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issues with hanavi and At Last I will
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share you some of the popular sources
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online from where you can get awesome
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live wallpapers so let's get started now
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there is one Clause with hanavi if I
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haven't mentioned before then hanavi is
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a gome extension which means it can only
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work on the distributions that have gome
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as a desktop environment and gome is one
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of the most popular desktop environment
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out there and many popular distributions
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like Ubuntu Fedora pop West manzaro they
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all come with a gome built and even if
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your distribution doesn't have a gnome
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build you can easily install
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gnome while keeping this clause in mind
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let's set things up first we are going
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to install the dependencies and uh they
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are very easy to do I might already have
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in my system because I tried Hanabi
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before so just open the Thal and uh
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execute this command so what this
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command will do basically install gitm
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and this media G streamer uh Library I
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already have these libraries but uh for
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the sake of demonstration I'm going to
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so just hit this command it will
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download these dependencies and install
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on to your system after getting these
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dependencies we will get the hanavi from
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the get so we are going to use get to
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basically download the project onto our
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system and then Mas to build it and I
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think this will be used for the video
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purposes I guess so let's get the
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project for that you have to execute
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this command we are using git and we are
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cloning it so just hit the command and
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it will create a folder by this name and
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it will download the all the files so
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now we just have to S to that
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folder and uh we will find all the
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project related files and we have this
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script over here and we just have to
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execute this script now to execute this
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script we just have to type do/ and the
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file name and uh we have to pass the
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install as a parameter hit the enter and
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it will be very quick everything is done
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now so this shows all the available
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extensions onto the system and hanavi
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should be listed here and uh I'm not
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able to find the Hanabi if that is the
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case with you as well then you just have
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to log out from your system and log back
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in so I'm going to just do
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that I have just logged out and logged
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in back to my system and now let me
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check
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again and you can see the Hanabi
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extension is listed over here now I just
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have to enable it and uh it will get
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activated by default it doesn't have any
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file live wallpaper so we have to
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provide that file so it accepts video
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files I have one uh downloaded already
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on my system so the wallpaper is looking
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really good right it is looking sick you
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also have the these options available so
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you can simply pause the video if you
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want you can also mute the audio if the
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video has any audio you can unmute it
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and play it back AP from that you can
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directly open the preferences from here
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after activating the hanavi extension
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and you can change the different
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settings and different uh live
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wallpapers as well now before going to
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the uh live wallpaper resources I have
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to tell you one more thing which is if
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in your system you're seeing this red
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mark in your hanavi extension then it
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basically means that the extension is
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not supported in your gome version
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basically to fix that what you can do
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you just have to go to your settings
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find out the version of gnome that is
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installing your system so just navigate
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to the systems and uh find out the gnome
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version in my case I'm using the gnome
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version 46 this is the latest LTS of2
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this extension supports this particular
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version if in your system it is not uh
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supporting then what you can do you just
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note down the gome version mine was 46
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yours can be like 44.6 foot and uh you
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just have to note it and go to in your
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file explorer and hit contr H this will
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basically enable hidden files you just
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have to look for a folder called local.
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local and inside this folder just
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navigate to the share and inside the
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share folder just navigate to the G cell
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folder inside it extensions and inside
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you will find this hanavi extension
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folder here you just have to modify a
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file so this is the metadata. Json file
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and here you can see currently this
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extension only support 45 and 46 version
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of the gome cell and if your for example
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yours version is
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44.2 then you can simply type here in
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the double quotes and uh just save this
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file and log out from your system log
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back in and open the extension manager
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and uh the red Mark will be gone this is
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a quick hack to basically allow the
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extension to work in your particular
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gome version now let's see some of the
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best resources available on the internet
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from where you can get the live world
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papers my favorite one is motion
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background.com and this website has a
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wide range of live wallpapers and it
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also offers different resolutions like
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4K and 1080p apart from that the best
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part about this particular uh website is
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that it provides you the optimize
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wallpapers so the the live wallpaper
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file is a video file right and that
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video file can be optimized so that it
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consume very less resources of your
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system now how do I know that because I
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basically downloaded some of the
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wallpapers and tried it on my system and
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they basically uh do not lag and uh if I
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try to download wallpapers from
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different websites other than motion
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backgrounds then some of them uh
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basically relax apart from that there
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are different options also available and
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they provide you different test of live
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wallpapers like desktop heart my
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wallpapers my live wallpapers.com and
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this one live
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wallpapers. pc.com so all these websites
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have a ton of live wallpapers but they
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all lack to provide multi-resolution
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options and the file size is often
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bigger when it compared to the motion
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backgrounds live wallpapers having said
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that there are options available out
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there and uh if you find any better
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options then these ones then do let me
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know about them in the comment section
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below a big thank you for watching this
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video till the end if you did and uh hit
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I'll catch you in the next one till then
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take care
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