Option to Set as Screensaver

[Juken]

Just wondering if it would be possible to add the option for a selected wallpaper to be made into a screensave. I believe that the best way to implement this into the UI would be to simply add a button that says "select screensavers" and then it will let you highlight the wallpaper(s) you want to have shuffle as a screensaver.

Screensaver management could be in its own tab in settings as well. There could be a checkbox saying "use global (color, volume, animation speed, etc)" and then checking the individual box would let you select the setting for all screensavers in the shuffle. Unchecking the box would make the screensavers you select use their independent wallpaper setting for whatever variable you unchecked. It could also include the amount of time before the screensaver shows so that Wallpaper Engine overrides the default time while the program is running.

This could also accompany a shuffle wallpaper feature with an option to decide the amount of time before it switches wallpapers like Windows has.

[Zero3]

Screensaver option would be nice. Alternatively, an option to hide desktop icons and taskbar after X seconds/minutes of inactivity.

[luddaite]

Yeah screensave would be nice, for now I just autohide taskbar in Windows settings

[Free Estrogen]

Fences from stardock allows you to double click the desktop to hide desktop icons if your looking for an alternative solution. Some of the other features of Fences don't work properly with Wallpaper Engine (Transparent fences show your real desktop background behind them). Their start menu replacer can also make your taskbar fully transparent. With all of those together I have a beutiful desktop.

[Juken]

Originally posted by Utterfail:

Fences from stardock allows you to double click the desktop to hide desktop icons if your looking for an alternative solution. Some of the other features of Fences don't work properly with Wallpaper Engine (Transparent fences show your real desktop background behind them). Their start menu replacer can also make your taskbar fully transparent. With all of those together I have a beutiful desktop.

Wallpaper engine already lets you hide icons too. I'd just like to have an animated screensaver with some intermission music, or maybe to recreate that old brick maze Windows XP used to have.

[[TK] Midnight Giggler]

as far as hiding icons on the windows desktop: Windows (at least 10, and i'm pretty sure 8.1, 8, and probably 7 as well) has the ability to hide desktop icons, in 10 (at least) it's a matter of right clicking on a blank part of the desktop, going to the view menu, and selecting "hide desktop icons". I do this on all of my windows installations as I don't like files and folders on my desktop, but rather, i'd rather interact with the filesystem via windows explorer (or another explorer program depending on my needs for the moment).

As far as a screensaver that allows people to use wallpaper engine wallpapers, I would *love* this feature!

[Mystix]

For automatically hiding the desktop icons, perhaps try Iconoid. It's a nice little free utility that you can have automatically hide the desktop icons, the taskbar and mouse-pointer (you can set it to autohide those items after a few seconds of inactivity on the desktop).
I use it and it seems to work good with Wallpaper Engine.

You can get it at:
http://www.sillysot.com/

[OOM-911]

This is definitly one I would like as HIGH priority for the future!

[Ray Dodeca]

Screen savers don't save anything but burn-in. Save power instead and turn off your monitors.

[Ulitemate]

I want this too!

[Cyphersphere]

I made a guide to emulate it being a screensaver.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=912474676

[DooT]

Originally posted by L O R D R A Y:

Screen savers don't save anything but burn-in. Save power instead and turn off your monitors.

It's not good to turn monitors for short period of time, at least for old generation monitors, that is. It's called screen-saver not power-saver.