Lively is the only animated desktop wallpaper application that you will need.
Its super easy.. barely an inconvenience, just drag & drop the files or webpages to set as wallpaper.
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Eternal Light by VISUALDON
- Powered by mpv / vlc player.
- Customize videos with filters.
- Hardware Acceleration supported.
- Supports integer scaler for sharp image.
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.
Heartfelt by BigWIngs
- Run GLSL shaders in browser.
- Custom shader renderer (coming soon.)
- Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.
- Support Unity, Godot games as wallpaper.
- Limited support for gui applications as wallpaper.
- Learn more..
- Lively supports Windows screensaver.
- Any wallpaper can be used as screensaver.
- Multiple monitor supported.
- Learn more..
- Lively can be controlled with command line arguments from terminal.
- Can be paired with third party scripting software like AutoHotkey.
- Learn more..
- Powerful set of API for developers to create interactive wallpapers.
- Get system information, audio graph, music information..
- Learn 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 11 fluent design language.
- Efficient, Lively is a native .net core application.
- Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
- 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.
- 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.
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Installer may give Smartscreen warning, discussion.
Are you a Lively fan and want to help out? here are some options..
Code contributions are welcome, learn more..
Help improve UI/UX of Lively, learn more..
Help translate Lively to more languages, learn more..
Suggest new features or file bug reports to improve Lively, learn more..
Financially support Lively by become a patreon member and get your name listed in-app, learn more..
Star this repository, leave a Microsoft store review or tell your friend.. any help is welcome :)
Lively is licensed under GPL-v3.