Wallpaper bug: Wallpaper is greyscale & 30 deg rotated(using hyprland)

[ghost]

I use:

• Hyprland on Fedora 39.

• A Fujitsu Laptop[Fujitsu Lifebook E, i5 @2.4GHz]

• Other system specs(if its helpful:)):

• -16GB RAM(Added 8GB trought modification on the motherboard)

• -No Graphics card(only integrated, Skylake GT / i5 HD Graphics 520).

• • Standart Monitor.
• • Undervolted cache & core by -20. (--undervolt --core -20 --cache -20)

• How I installed swww:

• • It came preinstalled with Hyprland. I installed Hyprland trought the GitHub repo.

• What I tried:

• • swww -kill
• • swww -clear

• Errors I got:
  [root@fedora ~]# swww clear
  Error: "Socket file not found. Are you sure swww-daemon is running?"
  [root@fedora ~]# swww kill
  Error: "Socket file not found. Are you sure swww-daemon is running?"
  [root@fedora ~]# swww-daemon
  thread 'main' panicked at daemon/src/main.rs:129:45:
  failed to connect to the wayland server: NoCompositor
  note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace
  20:49:06 [INFO] (main) Removed socket at "/tmp/swww/swww.socket"
  [root@fedora ~]# swww init
  DEPRECATION WARNING: swww init IS DEPRECATED. Call swww-daemon directly instead
  Error: "There seems to already be another instance running..."

I think I'm just dumb or smth, bug I read all the other issues(f.e: "Wallpaper show distorted and in grayscale #233") and found mine still not getting resolved, even in a similar issue, so please be patient with me.

I tried taking some screenshot, but it didn't work. Im new to Linux and probaly take some time to learn all this, but I can provide you with the console output:

[root@fedora ~]# swww
A Solution to your Wayland Wallpaper Woes

Usage: swww

Commands:
clear Fills the specified outputs with the given color
restore Restores the last displayed image on the specified outputs
clear-cache Clears the swww cache
img Sends an image (or animated gif) for the daemon to display
init Initializes the daemon
kill Kills the daemon
query Asks the daemon to print output information (names and dimensions)
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
-h, --help Print help (see more with '--help')
-V, --version Print version
[root@fedora ~]# swww clear
Error: "Socket file not found. Are you sure swww-daemon is running?"
[root@fedora ~]# swww restore
Error: "Socket file not found. Are you sure swww-daemon is running?"
[root@fedora ~]# swww clear-cache
[root@fedora ~]# swww kill
Error: "Socket file not found. Are you sure swww-daemon is running?"
[root@fedora ~]# swww init
DEPRECATION WARNING: swww init IS DEPRECATED. Call swww-daemon directly instead
Error: "There seems to already be another instance running..."
[root@fedora ~]# swww query
Error: "Socket file not found. Are you sure swww-daemon is running?"
[root@fedora ~]# swww-daemon
thread 'main' panicked at daemon/src/main.rs:129:45:
failed to connect to the wayland server: NoCompositor
note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace
21:01:04 [INFO] (main) Removed socket at "/tmp/swww/swww.socket"

The Wallpaper currently has the same issue as opened here, but the solutions didn't work for me: #233

[Senshi111]

same here on fedora and ubuntu

[myamusashi]

Same on Arch

[Shuvlyy]

Same on Arch

[myamusashi]

Solution for now #235
swww-daemon --format xrgb

[Senshi111]

Can someone try and change swww init to swww-daemon --format xrgb

[Shuvlyy]

Can someone try and change swww init to swww-daemon --format xrgb

It works.

[LGFae]

Everyone, go to issue #233. That's the exact same problem, with the exact workaround @Senshi111 pointed out.

@N0CTRON, you have a different problem. From what you've posted, you've tried using swww wrong. Try this:

In terminal 1, run:

swww-daemon

In terminal 2, run:

swww img <some-img>

See if it works. It it's grayscale, stop the daemon and start it with

swww-daemon --format xrgb

And try again.

[myamusashi]

Don't use "swww init", it's Deprecated #238

[LGFae]

Incidentally, is everyone who's having problems here, on laptops?

[ghost]

Everyone, go to issue #233. That's the exact same problem, with the exact workaround @Senshi111 pointed out.

@N0CTRON, you have a different problem. From what you've posted, you've tried using swww wrong. Try this:

In terminal 1, run:

swww-daemon

In terminal 2, run:

swww img <some-img>

See if it works. It it's grayscale, stop the daemon and start it with

swww-daemon --format xrgb

And try again.

It worked, but I had to switch to the standard "xf" from the login screen. Seems like it's a bug shared with hyprland. Thanks for the straightforward and fast reply!!