What is boingwave?

Boingwave is an animated desktop wallpaper for KDE Plasma 6 that recreates the famous 1984 Amiga "Boing Ball" demo. Instead of a static background image, you get a bouncing, color-cycling ball moving over a 3D perspective grid. It is a nostalgic nod to a classic tech demo, brought to life as a customizable, modern desktop background. The wallpaper offers a wide range of visual tweaks through a settings menu. You can choose from 13 color themes, including the original Amiga look, retro-style palettes like Dracula and Nord, and even a Wii-inspired interface skin. You can also adjust the ball's bounce physics to make it feel like it is bouncing on the Moon or Jupiter, change the animation speed, and turn on an optional digital clock. For people who love retro aesthetics, the project includes highly adjustable CRT and analog television effects. You can add screen curvature, scanlines, visual noise, and color shifting to make your modern monitor look like an old tube display. This makes it a fun choice for retro computing enthusiasts or anyone wanting to give their Linux desktop a unique, vintage arcade vibe. Under the hood, the project is built to be light on your computer. It does all the heavy visual lifting directly on your graphics card using a four-step graphics pipeline, which keeps your main processor free. It also includes power-saving features, like the ability to limit the frame rate or automatically pause the animation when you have other windows open on top of it.