Lively - Animated Wallpaper System Reviews and details

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• Octos – HTML live wallpaper engine

  I'm using Lively Wallpaper[0] to show an audio visualizer (trough CefSharp). The CPU load as shown in Task Manager is around 1.5-2% on my Ryzen 5800X. Therefore I tend to activate it only when I actually play some music and have it show. [0] https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Computer hardware that behaves like the one running it

  This is a sample project I made for my application Lively Wallpaper a free and opensource animated wallpaper software. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there any way to get wallpaper engine for free in a legit way?

  There's a free alternative, I use it: https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively. Source: about 1 year ago

• A TV wallpaper that shows music playing on system with visualizer

  Its a sample project I made for my application Lively Wallpaper, the music data is retrieved from system using Lively and works across anything that supports system media integration. Source: about 1 year ago

• Sorry for the hundredth post asking this, but in your guys' opinion, is WinUI 3 good for development now?

  I switched my application "Lively Wallpaper" to WinUI 3 early on: Https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively. Source: about 1 year ago

• Controlling Wallpaper Engine through Neovim. Should I improve this plugin for the public?

  Costs money and https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively provides enough functionality for me (my current background is literally just a gradient lol). Source: over 1 year ago

• [REQUEST] [STEAM] [3.99] Wallpaper Engine

  This isn't super relevant but have you considered using Lively? It's similar to Wallpaper engine but it's FOSS. Source: over 1 year ago

• norton error creates a purely cosmetic close button to force you to restart

  Yeah sure, https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively Its free and open source, you can also make your own wallpapers to use as well. Source: about 2 years ago

• The best background wallpaper app I've ever used on my Samsung G9 Ultrawide

  So I recently stumbled upon LIVELY in one of the software development subreddits. It's open source, free and looked intriguing. I've been running the "FLUID" background for a few days now and I feel like this has been one of the best freebie finds since I got my G9. I love how it's reactive and it's randomly brought me joy on a few occasions and I just thought it is too good not to share with others that have... Source: about 2 years ago

• Subaru and Ina Chilling Out

  Use lively instead. You can use every video / gif / image as wallpaper. Source: about 2 years ago

• Flux

  Pro tip: since it can run in the browser you can set it as your desktop background with Lively https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively. Source: about 2 years ago

• Vanta.js Animated 3D Backgrounds

  Neat. This can run as Windows background using https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively I would think twice before running it as a web page background though. We are not technologically sophisticated enough to waste processing power when it comes to mobile devices. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Hey Reddit. We have recently finished our Color Picker WPF component. We would be grateful if you checked it out. Of course, written in C#. It's compatible with .NET 5, .NET Core 3.1+, Framework 4.5+, so most of the use cases are supported! Thanks!

  I am using it in the windows store version of my project. Source: over 2 years ago

• I found that desktop background that one guy had. (It’s windows 10 only, link in comments)

  Lively wallpaper engine, its pretty decent and has other options less flashy and resource intensive: Https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively. Source: over 2 years ago

• HOLY FUCKING SHIT

  Could be Lively Wallpaper as well. (Did I mention that it's free and open source?) Works absolute wonders, when you don't want it to be a paid steam app. Source: almost 3 years ago