Web Player

Lively supports webpages as wallpaper.

Everything that works in browser will work in additional to Lively API for enhancements.

Web Player Setup

Currently lively supports these web players:

• WebView2 (Microsoft Edge)
• Cef (Chromium Embedded Framework)

WebView2 (Microsoft Edge)

Uses the native operating system Chromium Edge browser.

WebView2 is included with Windows and kept up-to-date via Windows updates.

If it is missing you can install it by visiting here.

Cef (Chromium Embedded Framework)

Chromium rendering engine using CefSharp library.

How to install CefSharp:

1. Download the lively_player_cefsharp.zip plugin from release page.
2. Extract and copy the Cef folder into plugin folder <install_location>/Plugins/
3. Select Settings -> Wallpaper -> Web Browser -> CefSharp

Note: This is not supported in Microsoft Store version of Lively.

Some difference between Lively web player from regular browser

• Video/audio autoplay is allowed, no need to mute audio.
• Lively API support for System Data and Input.
• Hyperlinks open in the same instance.
• Custom link handling for Shadertoy and Youtube.
• Right click menu is disabled.
• File downloading is disabled.
• Uses memory cache, settings and cookie gets removed on exit (disk cache can be configured in lively settings.)
• Minimal - no extension support, less RAM usage.