Loic.rocksdanister.lively 1.0.0

Lively Wallpaper

Contents

• About
• Features
• Download
• Problems
• Contributing
• Support
• License

About

<img src="/resources/main_preview.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

Lively is the only animated desktop wallpaper application that you will need.

<img src="/resources/main_dragdrop.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

Its super easy.. barely an inconvenience, just drag & drop the files or webpages to set as wallpaper.

Join Discussions:

• <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LivelyWallpaper/">Reddit</a>
• <a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/discussions/">Github</a>

Features

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Videos / GIFs

<img src="/resources/wallpaper_video.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

<a href="https://visualdon.uk/project/eternal-light/">Eternal Light</a> by VISUALDON

• Powered by mpv / vlc player.
• Customize videos with filters.
• Hardware Acceleration supported.
• Supports integer scaler for sharp image.

Webpages

<img src="/resources/wallpaper_html.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

<a href="http://louie.co.nz/25th_hour/"> 25th Hour</a> by Loius Coyle

• Load HTML file or web address as wallpaper.
• Runs webgl, javascript.. basically anything that works on chrome.
• Audio Reactive Wallpaper support.

Video Streams

<img src="/resources/wallpaper_yt.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

• Just drag & drop stream links.
• Adjustable video quality.
• Autofills wallpaper data.

Shaders

<img src="/resources/wallpaper_shadertoy.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

<a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltffzl">Heartfelt </a> by BigWIngs

• Run GLSL shaders in browser.
• Custom shader renderer (coming soon.)
• Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.

Games & Applications

<img src="/resources/wallpaper_emulator.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

• Support Unity, Godot games as wallpaper.
• Limited support for gui applications as wallpaper.
• Learn more..

Screensavers

<img src="/resources/screen_saver.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

• Lively supports Windows screensaver.
• Any wallpaper can be used as screensaver.
• Multiple monitor supported.
• Learn more..

Automation

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• Lively can be controlled with command line arguments from terminal.
• Can be paired with third party scripting software like AutoHotkey.
• Learn more..

Lively API

<img src="/resources/hw_api.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

• Powerful set of API for developers to create interactive wallpapers.
• Get system information, audio graph, music information..
• Learn more..

Taskbar Customization

<img src="/resources/taskbar_theme.gif" width="600" height="338"/>

• Several system taskbar theme : Clear, Blur, Fluent..
• Can adapt taskbar color based on live wallpaper color.
• Learn more..

& 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, native windows theme.
• Efficient, Lively is a native .net core application.
• Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
• Supports converting any wallpaper to video via screen recording.

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.
• Can be set to pause wallpaper when running on battery power (laptops.)
• Wallpaper automatically pauses when running remote desktop session.

Multiple displays

• Supports any number of monitors.
• Wallpaper adjusts automatically to monitor settings change.
• Span single wallpaper across all screens.
• Duplicate same wallpaper across all screens.
• HiDPI and Ultrawide resolutions supported.

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

Download

Latest version: v1.7.0.2 (Windows 10 1903 or above)What's new?

• Installer

SHA256: ed86b09beaafe06e18095f617cee920af61fd5220f256c6866b254bb1db10d3a

Installer will give Smartscreen warning, discussion.

Old version: v1.5.0.0

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Which version do I download?

Problems

See github issues.

Contributing

Coding

Pull requests are welcome, check guidelines for further instructions.

Translation

Help translate lively to other <a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively-translations">languages.</a>

Support

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

License

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