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Wallpaper is the background image on one's "desktop" or "home screen."

Wallpapers vary from system to system both in function and nomenclature. In Mac OS X, the wallpaper is called the "desktop picture." It is a static image or series of images that the operating system cycles through. Its function is purely decorative. In addition to traditional (static) wallpapers, Android (v2.1+) offers "live wallpapers." Live wallpapers are similar to normal applications, though slightly different (they are services rather than activities, so their capabilities are not quite the same). Live wallpapers extend the traditional wallpaper concept by allowing for interactivity, animation, and access to system functions. One of the challenges facing the live wallpaper developer is that the wallpaper is often overlaid with icons, widgets, and the like, beyond the programmer's ability to control or often even to detect.

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Script to change wallpaper in windows 10?

I am trying to get a script to work that will change the default wallpaper for windows 10 because I will be deploying Win10 to all clients. When I run the batch code below, it is not changing the default wall paper. I see that the img0 file is in…
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Getting desktop background on Mac

How do I get the current wallpaper on a Mac? Just point me to an API function so I can Google more. Edit: I think I found it. [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] mentioned at http://lists.apple.com/archives/student-dev/2004/Aug/msg00140.html Also…
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How to start the "set as" intent (wallpaper, contact picture, etc)

I searched over the web during the last few weeks (seriously) but I can't find what I need. I just would like to start an intent corresponding to the set as action. It generally offers either Set as wallpaper or Set as contact picture. And then, if…
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Setting iPhone wallpaper (locked screen background) programmatically?

I have an app which could benefit from the user being able to choose to set an image as the wallpaper (the background image on the "slide to unlock" screen). Is there a way for non-jailbreak third-party apps to do this? A search for "wallpaper" in…
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How does one detect when the wallpaper has changed (Windows XP or greater)?

I have figured out how to change the desktop wallpaper (there are dozens of examples on the Internet.) One thing that still eludes me: how do I detect when the wallpaper has changed? (Say via the Display control panel or another program changing…
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Is there any code to set wallpaper without cropping and zooming in android?

i am creating a gallery app , my first app and this is my code Bitmap bmd = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is); try{ getApplicationContext().setWallpaper(bmd); }catch(IOException e){ e.printStackTrace(); } The above…
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C++ launching program without console opening

I have been working on an application to set the desktop background basing of another application I found here: http://www.optimumx.com/downloads.html#SetWallpaper. The idea is to set the background to a wallpaper every 10 minutes, so it launches…
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how to fit the whole image on screen as wallpaper

I am developing an app which picks an image from the gallery and then sets that image as the wallpaper. But here problem is that only part of image is set as wallpaper not the whole image, but I want to set the whole image as the wallpaper. can you…
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Is it possible to set the wallpaper just like it's done with the app that comes with Android?

Android has a way to set the home screen wallpaper. The user taps "menu" and then selects "wallpaper" to set a wallpaper from the system. The resulting wallpaper image is properly scaled in both portrait and landscape mode. I did a small app that…
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C#: Set Desktop Wallpaper to a Solid Color

I'm using this code to remove the current wallpaper and set a solid color: public static class WallpaperColorChanger { public static void SetColor(Color color) { // Remove the current wallpaper …
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live wallpaper with images

(sorry for my Englih is not so good... hope you will understand me) My friend is a really good drawer. I would like to help him to be know as a good drawer by making him a live wallpaper animated with his drawings. I would like him to draw few…
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How can I detect wallpaper changing as a result of the Windows 7 slideshow?

I am writing a program that needs to know when the desktop wallpaper changes. After some searching, I found a partial solution: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/567779-net-detect-wallpaper-change/ Essentially, it says to listen for the…
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Wallpaper changed using Python resets to default on restart

As you can see, I followed the approach proposed by @meskr from How can I change my desktop background with python? to write my script in order to change my wallpaper. ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(20, 0, filepath, 0) My system is…
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How to detect the orientation of wallpaper in android

I use WallpaperManager.getDrawable() to get the current wallpaper and then convert it to bitmap to do something else. I find that sometimes I will get the wrong data of wallpaper when the device rotates continuously. For example, the width and…
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Cropping Picture on Droid X sets resulting image as wallpaper

I'm running into an issue with my program when trying to crop an image selected by the user from their gallery. The issue so far only appears when running on a Droid X, as running on the original moto Droid works fine. Basically the issue occurs as…
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