02 · Case study
Fresco
An open-source Linux live wallpaper engine written in Rust, with a native GTK4 interface.
- Role
- Creator and maintainer
- Timeline
- Ongoing
- Status
- In progress
- Stack
- Rust · GTK4 · Wayland · X11
Fresco is an open-source live wallpaper engine for Linux, written in Rust. It has a native GTK4 interface and an optimized async playback pipeline.
Website: fresco.dibbayajyoti.com · Source: GitHub
Adoption
Live install, country and download figures:
- Users
- 1,000+
- Countries
- 100+
Sampled · telemetry fallback
Source: GitHub releases · user and country counts are floors · refreshed hourly
I triage issues across distributions and desktops.
Demos
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