Go back to the desktop every time my wallpaper change.

[Skrillen]

Everything is said in the title, all time when my wallpaper change I go back on my desktop as if I had pressed windows + D. It's extremely boring in-game. :/

PS: i have 3 screens and i got this problem every time my wallpaper changes (so all 10 minutes).

Build 1.1.315 on Windows 1909.

Playlist option:
- Change wallpaper when a video ends: Off
- Allow wallpaper to change while paused: On
- Show wallpaper transition: Off
- Alwais begin with the first wallpaper: Off

[Tim]

Hey,

unfortunately this is an old issue and basically a problem with the Chromium (a simplified explanation for this is that Wallpaper Engine uses something like Google Chrome for its web-based wallpapers).

We're not aware of any fixes and since we cannot fix this issue ourselves as the problem is outside of our code, the best recommendation we can give to affected users is to turn off playlist cycling when wallpapers are paused ("Allow wallpaper to change while paused" needs to be turned off) or to remove web-based wallpapers from your playlist:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/2/1354868867716397246/

[Skrillen]

Ty for the answer, but how I can know if it's a web-based wallpapers ?

[Tim]

When you select a wallpaper, on the upper right corner below the preview image, you can see the "Type". It's either Scene, Video, Web or Application.

[Skrillen]

Is it possible to stop the playlist when I'll be on a full screen application or when I launch a specific application or something like that? Because if I stop using all of my web wallpaper, I stop using 75% of my wallpaper.
Btw ty for your help and sorry for the inconvenience, I’m a bit manic with things like this. ^^'

[Tim]

You can only stop the playlist from cycling by pausing the wallpaper playback. First make sure that "Allow wallpaper to change while paused" is off. And then in the General tab of the Wallpaper Engine settings, set "Other application fullscreen" to "Pause" (or "Pause per monitor" in your case I suppose).

Since you have multiple monitors, you need to make sure no web wallpapers are being cycled on the other two screens while you are in-game because when you use the "Pause per monitor" option, the playlist will still cycle through on the other screens. If you are not cycling through web wallpapers on the two other monitors which you do not use for games, this is not an issue.

If you cycle through web-wallpapers on all three screens, the best you could do is to create two monitor profiles with hotkeys (one with your playlists and one without playlists) in the multi-monitor overview. It's a bit annoying for sure, we'll see if we can create a better long-term solution for this, though it seems not too many people cycle through web wallpapers on their secondary monitors because it's not a problem that comes up that commonly.