Wallpaper Engine

Wallpaper Engine

Windows 98 Desktop Experience
32 Comments
Прикуриватель May 21 @ 2:34pm 
Dude, I'm in love. A lot of work has been done on this project!
Ingan121  [author] Feb 12 @ 6:32am 
@kanae do you mean you set a URL wallpaper in the background properties? Open Wallpaper Engine UI and click 'Show more options' to open that properties window again and reset the background option.
kuma-kun Feb 10 @ 8:38am 
if you have a URL wallpaper u can no longer exit out of it cuz it doesnt show the bar, im stuck with it now T_T resetting and presets dont work
RayHonKai Jan 17 @ 2:31am 
@Ingan121 Thank you very much, it worked! :steamthumbsup:
Ingan121  [author] Jan 16 @ 10:03pm 
@RayHonKai place the cursor at the top of the screen (or below the top margin area if you have one set), and the menu bar will show up
RayHonKai Jan 16 @ 2:57pm 
How do I take the visualizer out of full screen mode? I've tried resetting the wallpaper but it doesn't go back to default.:dealeruwu:
Ingan121  [author] Aug 12, 2024 @ 12:36pm 
@jesserocker Yeah, the keyboard input has been broken since the last Wallpaper Engine update (2.5). I'm working on a fix that utilizes the system plugin for receiving keyboard events, or an on-screen keyboard if unavailable. The implementation is now almost complete (see the GitHub repo for the progress) and will be released with the 3.3 update which will be released in about a month. For now, you can follow this official document [help.wallpaperengine.io] to downgrade Wallpaper Engine to 2.4 to modify those values.
jesserocker Aug 11, 2024 @ 8:00pm 
Been looking for a solid Wallpaper Engine desktop Wallpaper some time, and this one definitely takes the cake. The attention to detail is amazing!

Just one thing, when I go to edit values the program freezes and I can't use those text boxes that pop up to edit the values. [...] (1/2)
jesserocker Aug 11, 2024 @ 8:00pm 
[...] (2/2) For example, if I go to the Visualizer, then Options, then Configure Visualizer, under Visualization I'll try messing with the Primary Scale, Decrement Speed and Difference Scale values, and as soon as I click the text box, I get a pop up box prompting me to change the values, but everything, including the background freezes. Clicking, double clicking, hitting delete, hitting different numbers, nothing works to change those values and the program stays frozen until I go into Wallpaper Engine and manually deselect, and re-select your wallpaper.

The Visualizer and the entire wallpaper, is so cool especially in combination with my old school version of WinAmp, however the bars don't take up nearly as much of the screen as they should. I would oh so love to see a fix for this eventually! Otherwise, killer Wallpaper... seriously!
TooMFoolery Jul 16, 2024 @ 12:01pm 
@GKEN there should be an X button if you hover your cursor slightly above the channel bar
GKEN Jul 8, 2024 @ 2:53pm 
Hello. How can I remove a channelbar?
Scrumbo Jun 8, 2024 @ 2:50am 
yeah my bad
i was like "how tf do i turn this down" and it had me a bit heated lmfao
Ingan121  [author] Jun 7, 2024 @ 6:10pm 
@waymin That's the welcome music played along with the welcome window. It's same as the one found in Win98 (search for Windows 98 welcome music.) I will consider turning its volume down.
Scrumbo Jun 7, 2024 @ 3:16pm 
not that. there's loud ass techno music that plays
Ingan121  [author] Jun 6, 2024 @ 4:49am 
@waymin Real Windows 98 also had both the startup and welcome sound. Disable either the startup sound or the welcome screen. Disabling the former will also disable the welcome music altogether.
Scrumbo Jun 5, 2024 @ 4:30pm 
the music is so loud and unecessary, and you should feel like a fool for even adding it
iled saltineo May 31, 2024 @ 10:18am 
ok thanks
Ingan121  [author] May 31, 2024 @ 4:27am 
@ULTRA-VIOLENCE! You can click a title bar icon of any window, press Configure -> Properties to open the options window. You can also open a new window and change its URL to 'config.html' to keep the options window opened permanently.
iled saltineo May 26, 2024 @ 11:07pm 
startup menu doesn't appear anymore and do i have to keep wallpaper engine open to show more options?
raspberrygore May 25, 2024 @ 11:29am 
holy shit this is so cool
lucas.pls_ Apr 21, 2024 @ 12:56am 
This is the best, is there any chance of a Windows XP version in the future?
Ingan121  [author] Mar 12, 2024 @ 11:32am 
@Andro.Meta Could you please elaborate? What steps did you do to install it? Did it show any error message? Please leave those information in here or the Issues page of the linked GitHub repository. Also please try doing it again as I just pushed an update for this wallpaper.
Andro.Meta Mar 10, 2024 @ 4:46pm 
Really cool, but that plugin will not install at all
Ingan121  [author] Jul 18, 2023 @ 9:09am 
주소 변경은 http까지 포함해서 전부 입력해야 하고요, 구글같은 몇몇 사이트들은 iframe 차단해놔서 입력해도 아무것도 안뜹니다. 작업표시줄은 위에 링크된 WinClassic 들어가서 강제고전테마 적용법 참고하시면 됩니다. (저 스샷 찍을때 제가 썼던건 SimpleClassicTheme/ClassicThemeTray + ExplorerPatcher + TaskBow입니다.)
quiseol Jul 17, 2023 @ 10:58pm 
근데 저 change URL 하면 아무것도 안떠요..그리고 "docs\screenshot.png"처럼 하단바 같은건 어떻게 바꾸나요?
quiseol Jul 17, 2023 @ 10:48pm 
님아 한국인이셧어요??와 재능미쳤네요 당연히 미국 캘리포니아 발 고급인력일줄 근데 안에 프리뷰에 카카오톡있고 다음있고 예시에 중앙일보있고 그래서 이 사람은 뭔데.. 이런 세세한거 까지 한국 버전으로 내놨지 하면서 환경설정 영어로 바꾸고 별 짓 다해봤는데 ㅅ1ㅂ 깃허브 보니까 한국인이 맞으시네요ㄷㄷ 재능 졷대심
choom Jul 24, 2021 @ 2:22pm 
the fact that this has no ratings is insane, this is great.
k Jan 20, 2021 @ 2:18pm 
just gonna comment for a frind to find it-its cool tho
Ingan121  [author] Nov 17, 2020 @ 11:10pm 
Made it MIT licensed and added a simple method for a background HTML. (Unfortunately, I failed to implement directly importing HTML backgrounds for the reasons in the changelog.)
Matsilagi Nov 14, 2020 @ 11:35am 
Yeah, i already did that here locally but by adding the HTML code below yours and it worked like a charm, so yeah, it should be ok.

Thanks for it too, really nice!
Ingan121  [author] Nov 14, 2020 @ 11:14am 
Thanks, I'm currently making a feature to set background as HTML, so merging them would be easy. Also planning to MIT license this (only for my work, not the MS one).
Matsilagi Nov 13, 2020 @ 11:16pm 
Amazing, i did something similar not too long ago, but using the Windows 95 one.
Maybe you could merge both the 95/98 one and this one?