IdleStyle

Stylized screensavers

IdleStyle offers fully customizable screensavers with custom animation support. Custom animations can be used to display a range of things such as images and videos.

More: Github repo

Customization

Animation styles

Choose your preferred animation style in the animations tab.

Video Backgrounds

Configuring ffplay:

To use video backgrounds, you must first install and configure ffplay which is a part of ffmpeg. Follow the instructions below to setup ffplay.

1. Open this link. This link will download a zipped file named ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl.zip

2. Extract the zipped file you just downloaded and open the ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl folder. Inside, you will find another folder with the same name which will be required in the next step.

3. Open the ffmpeg-master-latest-win64-gpl folder, and go into the bin folder.

4. Copy the ffplay.exe (CTRL + C).

5. Open File Explorer and navigate to %appdata%\Rainmeter\JaxCore\CoreData\IdleStyle. For existing Rainmeter users: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\CoreData\IdleStyle

6. Paste the ffplay.exe you copied in Step 4 into the folder named IdleStyle which you opened, on Step 5

Setting up the video background:

1. Open Core and head over to the Modules section.

2. Select IdleStyle from the list and proceed to the Animation tab.

3. Second from the bottom, enable the custom video background preset.

4. Go to Appearance tab and under Customization press the DefaultVideo button besides the Video Path text.

5. Choose the custom video background you want to use. Please select common file formats such as .mp4