Animations Not Applied to Vertical Wallpapers

[i686-underflow]

Hello! 😁

Title says it all! Using the following, animations are only applied to monitor 1 (landscape, 1440), but not monitor 2 (portrait, 1080):

swww img -t random --transition-fps $FPS --transition-step $STEP -o "$2" "$img"

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Expected Behavior:

Animation is applied to both landscape and portrait-oriented wallpapers.

To Reproduce:

• Build swww from latest(?) master

• Configure displays in hyprland.conf as follows:

monitor = DP-1, [email protected], 0x0, 1
monitor = HDMI-A-2, [email protected], auto-left, 1, transform, 1

• Start swww as follows:

in hyprland.conf:

exec-once = path/to/start.sh "path/to/pictures/" "DP-1"
exec-once = path/to/start.sh "path/to/pictures/" "HDMI-A-2"

where start.sh is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# If swww-daemon doesn't exist, start it

if ! pidof -qx swww-daemon; then
    swww-daemon &
fi

# This script will randomly go through the files of a directory, setting it
# up as the wallpaper at regular intervals
#
# NOTE: this script is in bash (not posix shell), because the RANDOM variable
# we use is not defined in posix

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] || [[ ! -d $1   ]]; then
    echo "Usage:
    $0 <dir containing images>"
    exit 1
fi

# Edit below to control the images transition
FPS=30
STEP=2

# This controls (in seconds) when to switch to the next image
INTERVAL=210

while true; do
    find "$1" -type f \
        | while read -r img; do
            echo "$((RANDOM % 1000)):$img"
        done \
        | sort -n | cut -d':' -f2- \
        | while read -r img; do
            swww img -t random --transition-fps $FPS --transition-step $STEP -o "$2" "$img"
            sleep $INTERVAL
        done
done

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Environment:

• OS: NixOS 24.11 (Vicuna) x86_64
• SWWW Version: swww 0.9.5-masterV3
• WM: Hyprland 0.45.2 (Wayland)
• AMD64 Ryzen CPU + Discrete AMD graphics
• Display: 2560x1440 (Landscape)
• Display: 1920x1080 (Portrait)

[LGFae]

Thank God, someone who tests on latest master 😅 . Try applying #410, and see if it fixes it. There was a memory leak we have fixed in #410. That's probably what's causing this.

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Ah, my bad, PR #410 should actually fix #412, not this. Since you are the one who opened both issues I confused them a bit.

[i686-underflow]

Haha, not a problem at all! That's what it sounded like to me as well 😅

I'll apply and report back on #412!

[Astyyyyy]

Thank God, someone who tests on latest master 😅 . Try applying #410, and see if it fixes it. There was a memory leak we have fixed in #410. That's probably what's causing this.

Ah, my bad, PR #410 should actually fix #412, not this. Since you are the one who opened both issues I confused them a bit.

PR #410 seems to have fixed a crashing issue i was having (guessing its same one as @i686-underflow ), could get it to trigger within 10-15s by just spamming different wallpapers a lot, but now not crashing at all 👍

i do get 263368ms [ERROR] We failed to find wayland buffer with id: 8. This should be impossible. 263368ms [ERROR] We failed to find wayland buffer with id: 14. This should be impossible. sometimes but doesnt seem to be causing any immediate issues

EDIT
oh just realised i commented this on wrong issue meant to be for #412