- #HOW TO SET LIVE WALLPAPER ON MAC HOW TO#
- #HOW TO SET LIVE WALLPAPER ON MAC 1080P#
- #HOW TO SET LIVE WALLPAPER ON MAC TRIAL#
Under Interface tab, disable both "Use only one instance when started from file-manager","Allow only one instance" options and click on save to save the changes. Choose preferences from the tools option in menu bar. However, you can always right click your desktop and pause the video if you're going to do something resource-intensive (like gaming).Įdit (of over a year later): according to /u/JessieJanson, it is possible to watch a video in VLC without stopping the background animation.
#HOW TO SET LIVE WALLPAPER ON MAC 1080P#
The video I'm using is 1080p and uses about 5% of my total CPU. This depends on the quality of the video and what you see as 'a lot'. Right click it and click on 'create shortcut'.ĭoes this take a lot of processing power? Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC and search for vlc.exe. If anyone could help me out on this one, that would be great.Īfter VLC installed, I deleted the desktop shortcut, but it turns out I need it! Where can I find it?
#HOW TO SET LIVE WALLPAPER ON MAC HOW TO#
Well, I have absolutely no idea how to fix that one. I have multiple monitors and it splits the video over all of them! VLC has a bit of trouble gaining access to certain paths. When opening the shortcut it says the file can't be descripted, what do I do?Ĭut and paste the file to somewhere else, then edit the shortcut accordingly. If you click on one and set the dropdown menu to Dynamic, the background will slowly shift from day to night versions over the course of the day. Most of them offer the same image but shown at different times of day. VLC: very useful and fast program, this is what we will be using. Here are the built-in Live Wallpapers that Apple has included with your Mac. Video wallpaper: Kinda buggy, but also supports screensaver if you want that. Videoboss: Found in an obscure place on the internet, while working very good it automatically jumps into focus whenever you close something, which was kind of annoying. On r/Videopaper there are many people saying it's buggy as well. Even after I specially upgraded to Windows 10, I couldn't get it to work. Videopaper: This one was also referenced a lot, but it didn't seem to work for me. Some might like this, but it's not what I was looking for.
#HOW TO SET LIVE WALLPAPER ON MAC TRIAL#
However, they offer a mere 30-day trial after which you have to pay.Īnimapaper: Whilst very praised in r/LivingBackgrounds, it turned out that it's just a program that displays a video, which you can alt-tab out of. Also note that this doesn't require rainmeter, but since it makes your desktop fancy and all I guess there will be some interested.įor the sake of completeness, I will list some of the programs I have tried:ĭeskscapes/Dreamscene/some others: These seem free, and 90% of the time this will be what you find when looking for tutorials. Note that I'm by far not an expert on this topic, so if you see any mistakes/errors feel free to correct me. In this tutorial I will try to explain you how to do this so others don't have to waste as much time on this as I did. After a long time of searching, I finally succeeded. Some programs that did this costed money, others were buggy, and so on. However, when looking into the subject, I found that there were very few options. Last week I wanted to have a 'live' wallpaper on my desktop ( like this), since a bit of movement always makes it more attractive. (If you're just here for the tutorial skip to Step one)
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