vijo / lively

Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers.

Lively Wallpaper

Contents

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

About

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.

Join Discussions:

• Reddit
• Github

Features

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Videos / GIFs

Eternal Light by VISUALDON

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

Webpages

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.

Video Streams

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

Shaders

Heartfelt by BigWIngs

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

Games & Applications

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

Screensavers

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

Automation

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

Lively API

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

Taskbar Customization

• 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

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 languages.

Support

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

License

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