[HOW_TO] MagicMirror as Desktop Wallpaper (all platform : updated)

[OscarVsp]

Hello, thank for this !

I’ve followed configuration for linux, and i also had to add the custom css content to have transparency. It works well expect one issue: the mouse click don’t go through magicmirror, so i can’t click on folder/app on the desktop.

Is it normal, and am i supposed to only use the menu to launch app or am i missing something ? I looked on the electron documentation but i didn’t found answer to this…

Thanks for your help

[MMRIZE]

@OscarVsp

I’ve tested MacOS and Windows, but not Linux, sorry. But Electron Manual says type: 'desktop' options would work on Linux Environment too.
What kind of Linux are you using?

[MMRIZE]

@OscarVsp
You can check whether MM is really ‘most-bottomed’. Adjust some CSS to check whether MM is “COVERING but just transparent” against other icons or applications.

[MMRIZE]

@OscarVsp

• Non-X-11 based Linux Desktop might not work.
• This behaviour may severely be dependent on the platform, so in some environment, it might not work.
• When some OTHER application occupies the “most-bottomed position” later, MM might be expelled to the foreground. I’m not sure.

[MMRIZE]

Just for confirmation about still-working. (2024-05-16)

Both electronOptions and electronSwitches to be added must reside within the config variable in config.js. I didn’t mention it because it seemed obvious. Surprisingly, it seems to be misunderstood as adding this to the end of the file.

[plainbroke]

@MMRIZE
I tried to figure out what and how to make this work. Wow, way above my abilities.
Can you make a script for all of it so, us dummies can use it?

[MMRIZE]

@plainbroke which environment are you using?

[plainbroke]

@MMRIZE
MM latest and windows 10

[MMRIZE]

@plainbroke can you install MM on your windows and be able to run it? Or should we start from there?

[JohnGalt]

@MMRIZE
Do you know whether the install script developed and maintained by @sdetweil would install on various specified versions of Windows [E.G. Win7, Win 8, Win 8.1, Win 10 or Win 11]? if that script will install on the various implementations of Windows, that would likely solve this question of how to do it.