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rocksdanister / lively

Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3.
https://rocksdanister.com/lively
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Virtual Desktop support #488

Open Baumgaer opened 3 years ago

Baumgaer commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Sometime I have multiple virtual desktops and sometimes I don't know on which desktop I am currently.

Describe the solution you'd like Differend wallpapers for each virtual desktop could help to distinguish between different virtual desktops. Therefore it could help to give each virtual desktop a specific functionality. Lets say one desktop for work which should look respectable and one desktop for gaming which should look fancy.

rocksdanister commented 3 years ago

I don't know if this is possible.. does windows even allow different picture wallpaper for virtual desktop? have to look around..

Baumgaer commented 3 years ago

Currently not, but it's planed

https://www.howtogeek.com/719126/windows-10s-virtual-desktops-are-getting-custom-wallpaper-backgrounds/

For now you could just detect the current virtual desktop and set the configured one as a global desktop.

I don't know how expensive it is to set an animated desktop on each switch.

rocksdanister commented 3 years ago

I don't know how expensive it is to set an animated desktop on each switch.

Should not be that expensive.

References: https://github.com/mastersign/Mastersign.WinMan/blob/master/src/WinMan.Lib/vendor/VirtualDesktop/VirtualDesktop.static.notification.cs

MolotovCherry commented 1 year ago

Windows 11 now supports different wallpapers per virtual desktop. I wonder if something similar is possible with this 😄

rocksdanister commented 1 year ago

I think Windows is also just changing the picture wallpaper each time virtual desktop is changed.

TheGamesmenDev commented 1 year ago

TIP: In Windows 11 if you use the keyboard shortcut then there is no animation, so it looks as if it is just switching the wallpaper... however, if you have a touchpad mouse, the 4 finger swipe left or right shows the animation smoothly, and with each virtual desktop having its own wallpaper during the animation

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7132722/204694651-0fb32f25-13ae-4201-af39-690a779fddaa.mp4