Application Wallpaper (original) (raw)

Lively can set any application that can render its own gui window as wallpaper.

Lively can also handle games made in Unity and Godot engine.

It goes without saying, do not run random applications you find on the internet as wallpaper unless you are sure it is safe.

This feature is not available in Windows store version of Lively.

Problem Importing?

Lively resizes application into small window and embeds it into Lively's own window and screen captures that region for creating preview gif during importing wallpaper. This can cause issue with application that have their own code for sizing and position and try to enter fullscreen mode..

In that case you will have to manually create Lively .zip file and import it that way to skip the import wizard:

  1. Create new folder, copy application files into it and create LivelyInfo.json file

{ "AppVersion": "1.3.0.0", "Title": "App1", "Thumbnail": null, "Preview": null, "Desc": null, "Author": null, "License": null, "Contact": null, "Type": 0, "FileName": "App1.exe", "Arguments": null, "IsAbsolutePath": false }

  1. If application supports commandline arguments then see if there is an argument for disabling fullscreen mode and add that to the "Arguments".
  2. Create zip file of the folder, making sure LivelyInfo.json is in root folder.
  3. Drag'n'drop the created Lively .zip file into library.

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