Okay, so this Lively thing… it’s basically a way to make your desktop look way cooler with animated wallpapers and screensavers. Seriously, it’s built with winui 3, which is pretty slick.
I remember seeing something like this back in late 2023, and it seems like they’ve really packed it with stuff. Like, it’s not just about slapping on a cool video; you can actually control it with command lines, hook it up to Python, even mess around with machine learning to make the wallpapers change dynamically. Wild.
It’s got a bunch of features – screensavers for multiple monitors, support for shadertoy urls (which is awesome for those crazy shader effects), and even pauses when you’re in a remote desktop session. It’s trying to be really flexible, letting you set rules based on things like battery power. And it’s open source, which is always a good sign.
I’m probably overthinking this, but the fact that it uses a chromium-based renderer for the webpages… that’s smart, right? Yep; keeps things efficient.
Basically, you can just drag and drop media or webpages into it, and boom – animated desktop. It’s designed for Windows 11, which is nice. And if you want to help out, you can contribute code, suggest improvements, translate it into other languages, or even just spread the word. They have a Patreon too, if you’re feeling generous.
Honestly, it seems like a pretty neat project. It’s not some super complicated, enterprise-level thing. It’s just… a way to make your desktop a little more interesting. I’m going to check out the GitHub link.
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