kiviniemi.orgHow to set one up

Wallpapers

Live desktop backgrounds that follow the real time of day, the season and the weather. They're web pages, so they're free and always up to date.

Helsinki

The skyline from the sea under the real sky over Helsinki right now: the sun and moon where they are, today's weather, the city lighting up at dusk and the northern lights when they're out.

  • Time of day and season
  • Sun and moon
  • Clouds, rain, snow, fog and wind
  • Northern lights
With the time and weatherwallpaper.kiviniemi.org/helsinki
Just the citywallpaper.kiviniemi.org/helsinki/clean

Lapland

Saana fell over Lake Kilpisjärvi at the top of Finland, with a cabin on the shore. Polar night in December, the midnight sun in June, and northern lights on most dark, clear nights.

  • Time of day and season
  • Sun and moon
  • The weather at Kilpisjärvi
  • Northern lights
  • The lake freezes in winter
With the time, weather and aurora outlookwallpaper.kiviniemi.org/lapland
Just the landscapewallpaper.kiviniemi.org/lapland/clean

Stone

A dark river stone half-sunk in black water. Its light follows your mouse, and a click or a key sends a ripple across the water.

  • Follows your mouse
  • Ripples when you click
The stonewallpaper.kiviniemi.org/stone

Set one as your wallpaper

You need a small free app that shows a web page as your desktop background. Copy a wallpaper's address above, then:

  1. Install Lively Wallpaper, which is free and open source, from the Microsoft Store or with:
    winget install rocksdanister.LivelyWallpaper
  2. Open Lively and click + (Add wallpaper).
  3. Paste the address and press Enter.
  4. Click the new wallpaper to put it on your screen. With more than one screen, pick which one first.

Lively pauses wallpapers while a game or other app is full screen, so they don't cost anything then. To make the light follow your mouse, turn on mouse input for web wallpapers in Lively's settings.