[Request] Mute Button

[ristar85]

Requesting a mute all wallpapers button.

Right now, when there's a wallpaper with audio and the user wants to play a video (be it youtube or whatever), they'll have to go to the volume mixer and mute the output from the application.

It would be really helpful if there's a right click > Mute, or a hotkey to mute the output of the application.

Thanks.

[Murakunya]

There a volume setting for each wallpaper, or you could just right click > pause.

[Wiggle the Cat]

You can lower the volume to 0 in the wallpaper engine window.

[ristar85]

That volume lowering thing trick only works for that particular wallpaper, and is not a one click thing.

Having a master one click to mute function would be really helpful.

[Goldfire]

Dunno if you guys still need this, but I came up with my own hotkey to toggle mute. I wanted a way to quickly mute and unmute based on what I was doing, like listening to music or watching video - other times, I wanted to hear the Wallpaper Engine wallpapers that have audio.

• Grab nircmd from here: http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/
  
• Ideally, create a new folder on the root of your local disk for ease of use
  
• Inside this folder, place the nircmd exe's from the archive you downloaded
  
• Also inside this folder, using Notepad++ or similar, create a batch file with the command:
  
  nircmd.exe muteappvolume wallpaper32.exe 2
  
  
• If you have multiple monitors, you might need webwallpaper32.exe as well
  
• Be sure to save with a .bat extension
  
• Create a shortcut to this batch file, for the ahk script below, I used mute.lnk as the name
  
• Grab AutoHotkey from here: https://autohotkey.com/download/
  
• Create a new text document with Notepad++ or similar and use this ahk script:
  
  ^!w:: ;Ctrl+Alt+W
  Run, C:\nircmd\mute.lnk
  return
  
  
• Save that ahk script and run it, ideally you could set this to launch on startup via the Windows Startup folder (Run > Shell:Startup)

In my case, I have Control+Alt+W to quickly toggle mute and unmute. Modifiy the above ahk script to the a hotkey of your own choice - do this by changing ^!w:: to the key of your choice, for example: ^!x:: will give you Control+Alt+X.

Overall though, this is just a band-aid fix, hopefully the devs can implement this trivial change.

I know this is fairly technical and rushed, it's almost 3am here. If you guys get stuck and need help in setting this up, let me know and I'll archive my folder and put it on Dropbox so you can do a simple extract and run.