Lively Wallpaper rocksdanister

Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers.

README

Lively - Animated Wallpaper System

Contents

• About
• Features
• Download
• Issues
• Contributing
• Support
• License

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
• Reddit

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.

Having trouble?

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.