
When a full-screen program or game is running on the device, the wallpaper’s playback will be paused (with a CPU and GPU utilization of less than 0%). Fully opensource & free no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
Interactive webgl wallpapers, powered by lightweight chromium engine Cef. Hardware accelerated video playback, powered by mpv player. Easy to use Just drag’n’drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper. Can adapt taskbar color based on live wallpaper color. Several system taskbar theme : Clear, Blur, Fluent. Get system information, audio graph, music information. Powerful set of API for developers to create interactive wallpapers. Can be paired with third party scripting software like AutoHotkey. Lively can be controlled with command line arguments from terminal. Any wallpaper can be used as screensaver. Limited support for gui applications as wallpaper. Support Unity, Godot games as wallpaper. URLs from the Shadertoy website may be used as wallpaper. WebGL and JavaScript are both supported, along with pretty much everything else that Chrome can do. You may set a wallpaper using an HTML file or a web link. Allows for crisp images by supporting integer scaler. Compatibility with hardware acceleration is available. Filters allow for the customization of video. Playback is handled by an mpv or vlc player. The process is so simple that it hardly constitutes an inconvenience. Simply drag and drop the files or websites that you want to use as wallpaper onto your computer. Most modern LCD and LED displays do not suffer from burn-in issue and therefore any wallpaper can be used as screensaver.įor OLED, Plasma or CRT displays which are susceptibe to burn-in it is advised to use wallpaper with regular motion and an overall dark theme which is supposed to mitigate burn-in but this feature is untested and its effectiveness cannot be guaranteed.Software that is both free and open source enables users to set animated desktop backgrounds and screensavers on their computers. You can also start the screensaver using command line control/autohotkey shortcut.
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Reopen the Active Wallpaper dialog to see update.Configure it - set the time out and enjoy! (Only supports running current wallpaper are screensaver right now.).Select Lively screensaver in Windows settings.Lively screensavers can be setup in several ways, follow any one of the following methods. Think of Lively as a powerful screen saver manager with modern features like multiple monitor support. Supports all Lively wallpaper types - video, online stream, gif, webpage, games. Lively can set currently running wallpapers as fullscreen Screensaver.