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# Xlivebg

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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.

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## Installation

Install the xlivebgAUR package.

## Configuration

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.

## Usage

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

## Known issues

### Output corrupted or absent when using a compositor

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.

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