Lively Wallpaper

Contents

• About
• Features
• Download
• Problems
• 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:

• 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

Lively Documentation

Features

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Video

Eternal Light by VISUALDON

• Powered by mpv and vlc player.
• Customize videos with filters.
• Hardware Acceleration support.

Webpages

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.

Video Streams

• Just drag & drop stream links.
• Video quality is adjustable in settings.

Shaders

Heartfelt by BigWIngs

• Run GLSL shaders in browser.
• Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.

GIFs

Nyan cat

• Make Memes/Cinemagraphs as wallpaper ...

Retro Game Emulators

• Coming soon

Games & Applications

• Can set Unity, Godot games and any application as wallpaper.
• Dynamic audio visualisers, 3D scenes..

& more:

• Easy to use, Just drag'n'drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper.
• Hardware accelerated video playback, powered by mpv player.
• Interactive webgl wallpapers, powered by lightweight chromium engine Cef.
• Windows 10 fluent design, lively appearance adapts to system theme settings.
• Efficient, its a native .net core application.
• Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.

Performance:

• Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
• Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.

Multiple monitor support:

• Full Multiple monitor support.
• Span single wallpaper across all screens.
• Duplicate same wallpaper all screens.
• Different wallpaper per screens.

I'm not officially affiliated with Unity technologies, godot, shadertoy;

Download

Latest version: v1.1.9.4 (Windows 10 1903 or above)What's new?

• Installer

Installer will give Smartscreen warning, discussion.

Which version do I download?

Problems

See github issues.

Contributing

Code contributions are welcome, check guidelines for instructions.

Help translate lively to other languages.

Support

You can always help development by buying me a cup of coffee(paypal):

License

Lively v1.0 onwards is licensed under GPL-3.

Previous version is licensed under MS-PL, see v0.9.6.0 branch for working builds.