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My future plans are to create a user gallery for sharing wallpaper and a wallpaper animation engine. saved some cash by avoiding signing cert. One thing that did sort of got resolved is smartscreen situation, thanks to Lively's large user base smartscreen warning goes away in 1~3 days after every update. providing support to users is very exhausting, third party av programs heuristics algorithm still flag parts of Lively (I just tell users to use defender at this point), hate messages and trolls, copycat version of lively on store etc. Recorder: built in wallpaper screen recorder to convert any wallpaper type to video.įixes: Displayport hotplug fixes, wallpapers even get restored when display is reconnected. Video adjustments: such as hue, saturation, speed etc (uses a default livelyproperty file. Webview2 support: x264 web video support and possibly smaller app size in the future if cefsharp is made optional download. Improvements to livelyproperties api: You can see parts of it in the video like the color picker tool, file browser etc. waiting for wallpaper to load and then capturing the wallpaper frame from multiple plugins (mpv player for video, cefsharp/webview2 for webpages) and quickly calculates the average color you can see the results in the video. Taskbar theming: taskbar appearance customization clear, blur, fluent and live wallpaper theme!, Lively calcultes the average color of live wallpaper (video or webpage) and sets the taskbar accent color!. Screensavers: Running wallpapers can be set to play as fullscreen windows screensaver. set wallpaper, adjust properties and more! Some of the new features in no particular order:Ĭommandline control: control lively via terminal for automation. So ended up rewriting everything to json and serialize the message using newtonsoft as a fix. One fun thing that happened recently, I simply used string append for creating ipc message. So the store version of Lively is on a limbo at the moment, but the installer is looking good. (who would have thought maintaining two separate projects simultaneously will result in problems.) became popular and shortly after I ended up breaking it xD a lot has happened since.Ī few months back Lively released on Windows store. Its been almost an year since my last post:

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