Bjarne Oeverli
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The desktop background no longer plays videos. OWE owns video backgrounds, and the shell layer stays empty behind one. The shell keeps stills, which OWE hands back to it. Remove the desktop video pause plumbing that only existed to stop an unseen player: the lock, idle, and battery service lookups, the per-output fullscreen check, the first-screen audio opt-in, and the audio output in BackgroundVideo. The lock screen keeps its own silent playback. Update the background tests, the manual, and the package note.
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Backgrounds
Every theme ships with its own set of backgrounds, and you can add extras of your own in ~/.config/omarchy/backgrounds/[theme]. If you want to add an extra background image to, say, the nord theme, you just put the file in ~/.config/omarchy/backgrounds/nord.
You can do this most easily by going to Install > Style > Background in the Omarchy Menu. That'll bring up the folder where the backgrounds for that theme is stored. Hit Super + Shift + F to start another file manager, find your background, copy it over. Now it'll be included in the choices of backgrounds you can select between using Super + Ctrl + Space.
Backgrounds can be videos as well as stills. Drop an mp4, m4v, mov, webm, mkv, or avi file in the same folder and it appears alongside the images. Videos are played by the OWE wallpaper engine. It decodes once for every monitor and keeps playback silent, and it stops playback whenever nothing can see it. The lock screen keeps its own silent playback. A video wallpaper still costs far more power than a still one.
You can find a huge collection of cool curated backgrounds on https://github.com/dharmx/walls.