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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.

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

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• 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..

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

• 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.

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

• Installer

SHA256: 8bf189dc5a0cdab5db905cbff4907d796d416f50df82eaedbc7e2c20e1a38cc2

Installer will give Smartscreen warning, discussion.

Which version do I download?

See github issues.

Pull requests are welcome, check guidelines for further instructions.

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