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..
Lively is still in development, if you encounter bugs create a github Issue along with log file
Help translate lively to other languages: Translation Document
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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.
25th Hour by Loius Coyle
- Chromium Embedded Framework.
- 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
The Universe Within, The Drive Home by BigWIngs
- Run GLSL shaders in browser.
- Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.
- Coming soon
- Can launch Unity & Godot games as wallpaper.
- Dynamic audio visualisers, 3D scenes..
- Make Memes/Cinemagraphs as wallpaper ...
- Experimentail, works for some.
- Easy to use, Just drag & drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper.
- 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).
- Full Multiple monitor support, play different wallpaper per screen or span a single wallpaper across all screens.
- 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.
- 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, bizhawk, shadertoy;
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lively_full_x86.zip
130MB, Web wallpaper support & some sample wallpapers included. -
lively_lite_x86.zip
5MB, No web wallpaper support.
Unzip the file, select livelywpf.exe to get started, first run will be slow due to windows defender scanning.
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.
Code contributions are welcome, check guidelines for making pull request.
Currently Lively is only in English, other languages are machine translated. If interested in translating:
https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively-cef
https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively-gallery
You can always help development by buying me a cup of coffee(paypal):
Lively is licensed under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). Individual license of libraries used is found in license file in the source.