Wallpaper Engine Set Lock Screen
Assunta Gergely
The Windows login screen is not meant to be modified as a design decision by Microsoft. Making changes to it essentially requires hacking Windows in an unsafe and unstable manner. This means that if a Windows update modifies the lock screen or if the app crashes, you would be unable to login to your computer entirely. The feature could potentially stop working at any time, causing unpredictable side effects.
If Microsoft officially makes this possible or if we discover a safe way to add live wallpapers to the Windows lock screen, we will implement this feature. Currently, there are no known safe ways to accomplish this, which is why live wallpapers cannot be set on the lock screen by Wallpaper Engine.
However, you can still configure Wallpaper Engine to override the static lock screen image with a snapshot of your current live wallpaper. To do this, enable the Override lock screen image option in the General tab of the Wallpaper Engine settings.
As an alternative to relying on the lock screen, we suggest setting up Wallpaper Engine as a screensaver in combination with the On resume, display logon screen option enabled in the Windows screensaver settings. See our screensaver guide on how to configure Wallpaper Engine as your screensaver:
Hi, I have been asking this in Discord and I find it ineffective since no one answer my question there. I have wait like 3 day no response to my question so I came to this Community and ask my question. A bit disappointment for the discord group.
My question have stated above the title, I have been a user of wallpaper engine and I have just installed to nothing phone 2 and I am trying to set the lockscreen and home screen with live wallpaper but I found out that when I apply it only apply both screen together and I am not sure that is it wallpaper engine only allow lock and home screen put the same wallpaper together or they can seperately to apply the wallpaper or what?
The Wallpaper Engine typically operates the same way as the wallpapers that are actively running. But you can alter these settings by changing the screensaver settings to be configured separately. With the option to configure separately enabled, you can set up different wallpapers for different functions and profiles. Click on the red quit button in the upper left corner of the Wallpaper Engine window to restore your Wallpaper Engine to default settings.
There are limited options on how you can enable lock screen using Wallpaper Engine. The reason being, the manufacturers in the field believe that allowing these settings will compromise device security. There will hopefully be more positive updates on this as technology evolves.
Are you referring to wallpaper engine or corsair icue software crashing? I currently just reselect the wallpaper engine wallpaper again which overrides the icue wallpaper but then, usually within hours or a computer wake up, the icue software magically reappears again. Wallpaper engine doesn't crash and I keep it running at all times usually.
hmm sorry i dont know i usually dont keep it on a long time. I just ran it and had icue enabled running and switched and maybe i will leave it on for a bit and see what happens after a lock state or some time
Context: Last night I was using the laptop on an elevated surface and had it connected tot the TV via HDMI and had no issues, after that i decided it was time to head to bed so I closed the screen and left it on the side of the bed. I woke up today and was about to start using the laptop but I ended up scrolling on my phone for a bit and had the laptop sitting on the lock screen and after that windows just crashed i ended up getting this error.
the apps i had open from last night on the laptop were Steam, Wallpaper Engine, Discord, Nvidia Settings & Geforce Experience were in the pop up tab next to the battery indicator. Before that i had chrome open but i closed it as well as Windows media player. Both were closed before putting the laptop to sleep.
PLEASE EXCUSE THE TAGS. I am not sure what to tag it with since this is one of the 1st times i've posted here and im not too familiar with the tags. I tried putting a few but it didn't let me and only allowed me to select from a few keywords.
these are the errors
Wallpaper Engine has entrenched itself as a staple of PC gaming, with easy support for multiple monitors, ultra-wide aspect ratios and a broad assortment of workshop content developed by the userbase on Steam. Its estimated tens of millions of total users blow competitors, like the open source Lively Wallpaper, out of the water.
For people who don't want to manage both their Windows desktop settings and the wallpapers in the app, getting it to start automatically is a nice quality-of-life feature. Here's how to configure it to start when you boot up your machine, alongside a few other timesavers.
For startup settings, you'll find them under the settings wheel in the top right. It'll pop open a sub-window, and you're looking for the general settings tab within that.
As long as you're in this area of the settings, it may be worth configuring the performance settings for a first-time user: If audio playback is enabled, it's very easy to accidentally scare yourself with a loud wallpaper. After that, the top section of the general settings tab is focused on startup options.
It's important to also check the option below Start With Windows, labelled 'protect against crashes'. This ensures that if either your system or the program encounters any severe errors, the wallpaper engine will disable automatic startup temporarily. If you're using an especially intensive wallpaper that melts a graphics card or eats an entire RAM stick, this will let you safely open the app up and disable the culprit.
You don't need administrative permissions to enable it on startup but if you use the optional high-priority mode this does require admin rights. It'll also activate the app regardless of who is logging into the computer so be careful about what wallpapers you have enabled on a shared machine.
Further down on the same general settings menu, you'll find other useful options that can also be activated on startup. The override lock screen tool allows you to replace the Windows login screen with your new wallpapers but has a significant chance of clashing with Windows and antiviral software.
Screensavers have fewer security concerns compared to the lock screen. Setting up Wallpaper Engine to control your screensavers is a safer alternative to modifying your lock screen.
Opening Windows Task Manager with ctrl-shift-esc and clicking more details should reveal a tab labelled Startup. Wallpaper Engine should now be listed as one of these startup applications. It might be listed under a different application name, such as "wallpaper32".
As long as you're here, it may also be worth examining what other startup apps you have enabled and, if any, can be safely disabled. Some especially pesky apps either don't have or will hide their toggle to disable them on startup, making it easier to handle them through this menu.
If you have enabled it in high-priority mode, Wallpaper Engine will not appear on this list of startup applications. This is because the high-priority mode uses an alternative route and will activate before other programs on the startup list. The best way to check that it's working in high-priority mode is to simply reboot your machine and confirm that it opens automatically. If there are any startup issues along the way, disable high-priority mode.
In the previous section, we introduced effects which we applied to the background image. The background image is an asset in Wallpaper Engine, which is an additional element in your wallpaper. Wallpaper Engine supports different types of assets, the most common ones are images, text layers, particle systems, sounds and even 3D models.
In this section of the tutorial, we will show you how to add and customize assets to your wallpapers. We will continue working on the wallpaper that we have worked on in the previous section. Start by clicking on the Add Asset button on the left-hand side of the screen. This will open an overview of all assets installed by default. Click on Light Shafts and select Light Shafts 1 (old) and confirm by clicking on OK as shown in the video below.
Your assets will be added to your wallpaper immediately but the position and size may not immediately be the way you want them. Wallpaper Engine uses 3D handles which you may already be familiar with if you have ever worked with a 3D game engine. These handles allow you to easily modify the Origin (the position), the Angle (the rotation) and the Scale (the size) of your assets. Watch the video below to see how the different handles allow you to move, scale and resize your assets:
Let's continue by flipping the light shafts and moving them to the upper right corner to match the lighting on the mountains. Move the light shafts, then flip them so that they fall into the right direction.
Flipping can be achieved by turning the Scale for the X axis negative. There are two ways to do this: Grab the red box at the tip of the arrow handle and move it to the left so that the light shafts flip over. Alternatively, you can also manually type -1 into the Scale input field for the X axis. You may also adjust some of the asset properties like changing its color to fit the more orange tone of the light and lowering its opacity to make the effect a bit more subtle. See the video below which shows this process:
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