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Ludicrous processor usage on my script. How to optimize it?

I saw some apps to set a video as wallpaper but they are not free. I don't have a lot of money, so I've decided to create my own with Python! It was way easier to create than I thought! Unfortunately, I have completely insane percent of processor…
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Where does macOS store the desktop picture change time?

I want to determine programmatically whether a user has enabled automatic desktop picture change in the background & screensaver preferences or not (and also the change time). I know that recent versions of macOS store desktop picture information in…
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Get home wallpaper and set it to my activity

I want to get the home wallpaper set and put it as my background for my activity. Is this possible ? I searched on the internet with WallpaperInfo v = w.getWallpaperInfo(); String name = v.getServiceName(); I have the service name (because the…
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Formula or API for calulating desktop icon spacing on Windows XP

I've built a simple application that applies grid-lines to an image or just simple colors for use as desktop wallpaper. The idea is that the desktop icons can be arranged within the grid. The problem is that depending on more things than I…
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How to add wallpaper in android?

How to add a wallpaper on your desktop in android to run scroll. To add a wallpaper I'm using: for(int i = 0; i
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Set desktop wallpaper in JavaScript Windows 8 Application

Is there any way to set desktop wallpaper from Windows 8 application written in JavaScript? Thank you!
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How does one tell Windows 10 to tile, center, or stretch desktop wallpaper using WIN32 C/C++ API?

Goal: using C++, the Win32 SDK and Visual Studio 2019 to set the desktop wallpaper to be centered or tiled or stretched. One can use SystemParametersInfo() to change the wallpaper. No problem at all. Problem is telling the system to tile or center…
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Python - force window to render below everything else

I'm trying to do basically what Rainmeter does, but in Python. Does anyone know how to force my window to be below everything else? (And possibly how to let clicks go through to desktop icons?) I figure this probably needs some ctypes calls into…
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android wallpaper changed

Hi I set a android wallpaper through bitmap. But Now I want to remove this .How can I remove this?? Can anyone have better Idea.I try wallpaper.clear(); but it is not working . SO please Help me . Thanks and Regards, Md Maidul Islam
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C# - Multiple Desktop Wallpaper App - Logic Problems

I'm currently tearing my hair out with this problem. Where I'm up to: I can Generate an image for each screen Create a mega-image for two screens next to each other. Setting this as a tiled wallpaper. What I want to do: Support any number of…
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Is there a way to program a wallpaper for windows?

My buddy wants me to program a wallpaper for his birthday. The idea he has would require some code to be run in order for his idea to work. I would need access to get a timestamp and draw to the background. I believe he is running windows 10, but he…
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get path to current desktop wallpaper

As mentioned in the title, I want to get the path to the current desktop wallpaper (in C++). I tried to use SystemParametersInfo with SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER. But this only returns this: %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper What I…
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Is there a better way to add the computer name to the Desktop Bit Map as part of VM Creation Process using Powershell

So here is my PowerShell function that I run as part to my OS set up script when creating a new VM on Hyper-V. I am curious is there a better way to accomplish this, or is this a s good as it gets? I would like this to be simpler and easier to…
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Where is the location of the OS X 10.5 user wallpaper

I was just wondering where the /File/System/Location/ of a users current wallpaper is stored in OS X 10.5. Something like how the default login windows wallpaper is stored at /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
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Disabling Desktop Wallpaper

does anybody know if there is a way to disable the Desktop Wallpaper image temporarily, and show just the current default "background color" and then enable the desktop wallpaper back again just the way it was? Thanks.
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