rocksdanister/rePaper

rePaper - A window to the the outside world

Contents

• About
• Download
• Features
• Screenshots
• license
• Support

About

Try to imagine your desktop as a window, as it rains outside you see water droplets dripping down..as it snows you see it get frosted.. as sun rises & sets scenery changes realtime.

Thats the idea behind this software; What started out as a simple idea, after many months of work I present to you rePaper.

When running fullscreen applications or games rePaper will go to sleep (~0% cpu & gpu usage); no performance cost.

Check out my other Project Lively for a general purpose wallpaper system.

Download

I'm not working on this project anymore. For support please use my new & better wallpaper software "Lively" instead: https://rocksdanister.github.io/lively

Latest version: v0.5.3 (Windows 10, 8.1, 7)

• rePaper.zip
  (SHA-256: d8c2e051fe2885d7b48201a390b98fc2f8c8e6cfaa50e9256352cbfeb1c64a49)

Unzip the file, select Start.exe to get started. First run will be slow.

To update application, just delete the folder and extract the new zip.

Note: Certain antivirus software may detect some processes of this application as virus. So far AVG has been reported as flagging rePaper as IDP.ALEXA.51 ; this is a false positive, similar to the case of Attila, Rome II, Warhammer II etc. Source. rePaper is fully opensource, you are free to check the code.

Save files & settings are stored in \Saved Games\rePaper.

Features

• Video file as wallpaper support (Hardware Accelerated Playback optional)
• Most of the processing is done via gpu shaders, low cpu usage.
• Weather effect appearance is customisable:- raindrop size, speed, blur intensity etc.
• Openweathermap API used to gather weather information. (most of these weather conditions are supported: https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions)
• Real-time day/night cycle based on sunrise-sunset time.
• rePaper will pause when running fullscreen application or games (~0% cpu & gpu usage; main execution thread is stopped, background thread used for monitoring).
• rePaper will pause when application focus change (optional).
• Application rule: Set specific rePaper sleep rules based on running application.
• Ultrawide resolution support, multimonitor system support.
• Toggle windows 10 Light/Darkmode automatically based on time (optional).
• Automatically detect clock, text color based on wallpaper (picture wallpaper only).
• Your areas weather might not always be exciting, all the weather effects are user selectable.
• Customizable - adjustable performance settings (fps, blur quality) , custom UI color, different clock styles & more.
• Appears behind desktop icons.
• Brightness change based on time of day & weather - less bright when clowdy, raining.
• Can be used alongside Rainmeter.
• Additional 4 weather presets for user customisation, turn it into radioactive wasteland, extreme rain..etc
• Runs at system startup (optional).

Screenshots

License

rePaper is licensed under GPL-3, individual license of used libraries is provided in the source directory.

Support

If you like what I do & want to support me: