Want to make your own dynamic wallpaper pairings to use in GNOME 42 and above?
If you do you’ve probably come across Dynamic Wallpaper. It’s a super-simple GTK app tool that lets create a background pair that changes based on the light/dark mode setting.
A new version of the app landed this past weekend. Dynamic Wallpaper 0.1.0 delivers a new design that, to my eyes, is a much better fit for the modern GNOME desktop and libadwaita apps. That’s not to say the old UI was bad, but this one is better.
Feature wise nothing else has changed: you open the app, select an image to use as the wallpaper when ‘light mode’ is active, select an image to use when ‘dark mode’ is active, assign your creative coupling a name, then hit ‘create’ to save it.
Once saved, you head to Settings > Appearance to apply it. You can spot your creation easily as these dynamic wallpapers display a split thumbnail previewing the two images, light mode on the left, dark mode on the right.
Dynamic Wallpaper requires GNOME 42 or later (dynamic backgrounds you make using this app will NOT work on earlier versions, nor will they work in Ubuntu 22.04). Remember: these are NOT slideshows; the image won’t change based on the time or day but only with your dark mode preference.
Want to try it out?
You can grab source code from GitHub, or install the latest version of Dynamic Wallpaper on a compatible Linux distro direct from Flathub.