Use this command to install SignalRGB Desktop Wallpaper:
winget install --id=Delido.SignalRGBWallpaper -e
SignalRGB Desktop Wallpaper is a desktop customization tool designed to integrate live RGB effects into your wallpaper, creating dynamic and visually appealing desktop environments. This software allows you to enhance your workspace by syncing your SignalRGB lighting effects with transparent regions of your chosen wallpaper.
Key Features:
Live RGB Glow: Experience vibrant colors at 60 fps, ensuring smooth transitions and real-time updates.
Multi-Monitor Support: Tailor each monitor's display independently or span across multiple screens for a cohesive look.
In-Browser Image Editor: Easily create transparent regions in your wallpaper without needing advanced software, with starter templates provided.
Ambient Effects & Widgets: Customize your desktop further with a variety of ambient effects and widgets, such as clocks, weather, and more.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for tech enthusiasts, gamers, and desktop customizers seeking to enhance their workspace. SignalRGB Desktop Wallpaper offers an immersive experience by syncing dynamic lighting with your desktop setup, transforming it into a visually stunning environment that reflects personal style and creativity.
This software seamlessly integrates with Lively Wallpaper or Wallpaper Engine, providing an intuitive setup process via winget, eliminating the need for manual configurations. Experience the perfect blend of technology and aesthetics on your desktop.
README
Live RGB glow on your desktop, driven by your SignalRGB effect.
Bundled wallpapers with saliency-cut alpha — your live SignalRGB
glow shines through the transparent neon zones.
Your SignalRGB effect already drives keyboards, fans and strips —
why not your desktop too? This project lets the live colours from
SignalRGB shine through transparent regions of your wallpaper. Pick a
bundled image, drop in your own, or carve cut-outs in the in-browser
Builder — the holes light up in whatever colour your current SignalRGB
effect is producing, in real time, at 60 fps, with negligible CPU cost.
Runs on top of Lively Wallpaper
(free) or (paid,
on Steam). The one-click installer sets everything up — no Python, no
manual file copies, no terminal.
Manual: grab SignalRGBWallpaperSetup-.exe from
Releases
and run it. No admin needed — installs per-user.
The wizard's defaults cover the common path: Lively + auto-import +
SignalRGB plugin + autostart + open the Configurator when done. Both
hosts are auto-detected; if Lively isn't installed yet, the wizard
can fetch + silent-install it for you.
2 · Configure
The Configurator opens automatically at
http://127.0.0.1:17320/configurator. Set the screen count (top right
Screens: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4), pick a wallpaper from the Library tab,
tweak the glow — done.
3 · Place SignalRGB devices
Open SignalRGB → Layouts. Drag each Desktop Wallpaper – Screen N
device onto the canvas where you want colours sampled from. For a
single monitor: cover the canvas. For side-by-side: left half + right
half. The multi-screen guide has worked
examples.
4 · Assign in your wallpaper host
Lively users — the installer dropped the four wallpapers into
your Lively library. Right-click each SignalRGB Glow – Screen N
tile → Set as wallpaper → pick the matching monitor.
Wallpaper Engine users — My Wallpapers now contains SignalRGB
Glow. Assign it to every monitor and pick a different Screen
index (1 / 2 / 3 / 4) per assignment.
> 💡 Stuck? Right-click the bridge's tray icon → Help… for
> scenario walkthroughs covering every Lively / Wallpaper Engine setup
> for 1–4 monitors, including ultrawide and spanned configs
> (DE / EN, auto-localised).
Requirements
Windows 10 or 11
SignalRGB installed and able to
drive your hardware (open it once, pick any effect; if no LEDs light
up, fix that first)
Grid renderer: DOM (default, best on RTX-class GPUs) or
Canvas (lower CPU, slight GPU bump — good for weaker CPUs)
Glass quality: Medium (6 px blur, default), Low (no blur,
biggest GPU win with many Glass widgets), High (12 px blur,
GPU-heavy)
How it works
The SignalRGB plugin registers as virtual lighting devices (one per
monitor) and samples your effect canvas every frame. Each frame goes
out as a UDP datagram to a small bridge (SignalRGBBridge.exe,
runs in your tray) that fans the colours out to one HTML wallpaper
page per monitor over WebSocket. The wallpaper page renders the
colours as a CSS-grid glow layer behind your background image. All
per-screen settings (background, glow, widgets, effects) live in the
in-browser Configurator which pushes changes live to the wallpaper
without any reload.
The tray icon's Help… entry opens a scenario-based walkthrough
covering every Lively / Wallpaper Engine setup for 1–4 monitors,
including ultrawide / non-16:9 panels and spanned configurations
(DE / EN, auto-localised). For deeper docs:
Installation guide — full walkthrough
with screenshots and Windows path notes
Multi-screen setup — placing
SignalRGB devices, assigning wallpapers per monitor
Per-screen + per-tile apply — route an image to a specific
monitor or one half of a span layout. The span dialog now leads
with the two tile buttons (left/right or top/bottom).
Builder Apply Wall fallback — leaving a tile empty keeps the
existing background underneath instead of wiping it.
Heads up — Windows Defender false positive
In v2.0.0 the bridge briefly included an in-app downloader for the
themed wallpaper packs. The combination of unsigned binary +
network download + ZIP extraction triggered Windows Defender's
heuristic (Wacatac.B!ml) on some systems. v2.0.1 removes the
in-app downloader so the bridge stops hitting that pattern; the
themed packs are still available — you grab the ZIPs straight off
the library-packs-v1
release and extract them into
%LOCALAPPDATA%\SignalRGBWallpaper\library\. The Library tab has a
direct link.
We're evaluating code-signing + a separate small downloader so the
in-app flow can come back without the false-positive risk. If
Defender still flags SignalRGBBridge.exe for you, please
submit it as a false positive
and (optionally) add the install folder to Defender's exclusion
list — your local copy is safe, the binary is built from this
repo's source.
Extract; drop signalrgb-glow/ into …\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\projects\myprojects\
Then run SignalRGBBridge.exe. The tray icon appears; right-click
→ Configurator… to set everything up.
Uninstall
Windows Settings → Apps → SignalRGB Desktop Wallpaper → Uninstall.
The uninstaller removes the bridge, the auto-imported Lively folders
(signalrgb-glow-screen-{1..4}\), the WE bundle (signalrgb-glow\),
and the autostart registry entry. Your custom backgrounds, widgets and
presets in %LOCALAPPDATA%\SignalRGBWallpaper\ stay; delete that
folder by hand to clear them too.
The SignalRGB plugin in Documents\WhirlwindFX\Plugins\ is not
removed automatically — delete by hand if you want SignalRGB to forget
about it.
Contributing
Issues and PRs welcome. Bug reports should include:
Windows version (Win+R → winver)
SignalRGB version (Settings → About in SignalRGB)
Lively / Wallpaper Engine version (and which Lively build —
Microsoft Store vs GitHub installer)
The bridge log if relevant: run SignalRGBBridge.exe from a CMD
window (or python wallpaper_bridge\bridge.py directly)
Support / donate
This project is built and maintained in spare time. If it saves you
the hassle of writing your own SignalRGB → wallpaper plumbing, or if
seeing a glow that matches your effect just makes you smile every
morning, a small tip keeps the motivation up.
Issues, feature requests and pull requests are also very welcome —
even just an issue
saying "this is broken on my machine" helps a lot.
