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Random wallpapers

List folders of videos in config.toml, and phonto plays one of them, picked again each time it starts.

Search paths

config.toml

[[search_paths]]
path = "~/Videos/wallpapers"
depth = 1

[[search_paths]]
path = "/mnt/media/loops"
depth = 0

depth is how many levels of folders phonto searches: 0 is the folder alone, 1 adds the folders inside it, and so on. A file counts when its extension is mp4, mkv, webm, avi, mov, gif or ogv, in any case.

phonto skips a search path that doesn’t exist, so one config can list folders from more than one machine.

Playing one

shell

$phonto --rand

Every video across all the search paths has the same chance. If there are none, phonto stops with no wallpapers found in configured search paths.

For a random video on one display only, see --display-rand.

Which one it picked

When one video plays on every display, phonto writes its path to ~/.cache/phonto/current for other programs to use. The hyprlock setup plays it on the lock screen, and phonto dump can take a frame of it.

With a different video on each display there’s no single answer, and phonto doesn’t write the file.