macOS Mojave Custom Dynamic Wallpaper

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Artyom Pstygo picture Artyom Pstygo · Jun 19, 2018 · Viewed 12.1k times · Source

I've found that the default (and only) dynamic wallpaper in macOS Mojave Beta is in /Library/Desktop Pictures/. The file in question is called "Mojave (Dynamic).heic"

I imagine that the file itself is probably some sort of mapping/dictionary from time values to images, but I haven't been able to open it as any sort of image collection. Sure, I can open it with Preview, but it only shows one of the images.

I believe there has to be a way of creating custom wallpapers similar to this default one. The question is how to open such files properly (to see them as collections) and, more importantly, edit them?

Answer

mczachurski picture mczachurski · Jul 12, 2018

I described here and here how dynamic wallpapers are built. Also I created simple console application which can help with creating custom wallpaper: https://github.com/mczachurski/wallpapper.

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