Lively Wallpaper rocksdanister
winget install --id=rocksdanister.LivelyWallpaper -e Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers.
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Lively - Animated Wallpaper System
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About
Turn Video & GIF Files, Emulators, HTML, Web address & Shaders, Games into Windows desktop wallpaper; Wallpapers will completely pause playback( 0% cpu & gpu usage) when fullscreen application/games are running.
Just drag & drop files, webpages to set as wallpaper..
Join Discussions:
- Discord group
Lively is still in development, if you encounter bugs create a github Issue along with log file
Help translate lively to other languages: Translation Files
Full Documentation
Features
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Video
Foggy Landscape by Tom Fisk
- Use external codec packs or internal windows codec.
- Play .mp4, mkv, webm, avi, mov etc
- Hardware Acceleration support.
- Audio will mute when not on desktop.
Youtube & streams
- Just drag & drop youtube link to set as desktop wallpaper.
- Video quality is adjustable in settings.
- Additional software required.
Web Pages & html
25th Hour by Loius Coyle
- Load HTML file or web address as wallpaper.
- Runs webgl, javascript .. basically anything that works on chrome.
- Audio Reactive Wallpaper support, create wallpapers that react to system audio
- Customisation support, documentation.
Shaders
The Universe Within, The Drive Home by BigWIngs
- Run GLSL shaders in browser.
- Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.
Retro Game Emulators
- Coming soon
Games
- Can launch Unity & Godot games as wallpaper.
- Dynamic audio visualisers, 3D scenes..
GIFs
Nyan cat
- Make Memes/Cinemagraphs as wallpaper ...
Other Applications
- Experimentail, works for some.
& more:
- Easy to use, Just drag & drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper.
- Real-time customisable web wallpaper support.
- Easy to share Lively-zip format, just drag & drop the zip file to import it into Library, use the built-in creator to make them (ensures compatibility).
- Hardware accelerated video playback, with option to use external Directshow codec of your choice. ( LAV(recommended), K-Lite, Kawaii Codec..)
- Library to browse and preview wallpapers.
- You can use it alongside rainmeter.
- Efficient, its a native c# wpf application with c++ calls.
- Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
multiple monitor support:
- Full Multiple monitor support.
- Span single wallpaper across all screens.
- Duplicate same wallpaper all screens.
- Different wallpaper per screens.
Regarding Performance:
- Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
- Optionally you can set wallpaper to only play when on desktop.
- Application rules: Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.(like always pause when photoshop is open etc)
- Based on display(multiple monitor): Pause wallpaper playback per-display(depending on which monitor fullscreen apps/games run) or all display(s).
- Kill wallpaper when fullscreen apps/games run(coming soon).
- Mute audio when not on desktop (or optionally always mute).
I'm not officially affiliated with Unity technologies, godot, shadertoy;
Download
Latest version: v0.9.6.0 (Windows 10, 8.1)What's new?
Download Lively Installer
102MB, Web wallpaper support & some sample wallpapers included.Download Lively Portable
111MB, (No Installation & updater) Web wallpaper support & some sample wallpapers included.
Portable build: Latest Visual C++ Redistributable is required: vc_redist.x86.exe
Installer will give Smartscreen warning, discussion.
Certain antivirus software heuristics algorithm will detect lively as a virus, this is a false positive lively is fully opensource, you are free to inspect the code.
Issues
~~TODO List~~
See github issues.
Contributing
Code contributions are welcome, check guidelines for making pull request.
Some Lively languages are machine translated,
Help translate lively to other languages: Translation Files
Related Projects
https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively-cef
https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively-gallery
Support
You can always help development by buying me a cup of coffee(paypal):
License
Lively is licensed under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). Individual license of libraries used is found in license file in the source.