Introduction and wallpapers!

[aeronius]

Hello!  New to the forums but discovered Playnite about a year ago.  It's given me the couch gaming experience I've been dreaming of for years.  I really dig the XBox themes by kersalmassive.  Great work there!  And thanks to Playnite's dev for making such a great frontend!

I thought I'd share some Playnite wallpapers I made.  My living room PC boots straight into Playnite, and these wallpapers make it a seamless experience.  I took a screenshot of the Playnite splash screen as it was booting, extended the gradients out in Photoshop, and added some noise to match the splash screen.  When using these wallpapers, the Playnite splash screen is indistinguishable from the desktop, which I think helps create a more immersive and less PC-like experience.

I've attached two versions: 1920x1080 in both desktop and fullscreen splash colors.  Even if you don't boot straight into Playnite, it's a nice and clean wallpaper.  I have 2560x1080 versions but they're over the file size limit for attachments.  I can also make 2560x1440 versions..  I hope these are useful to some of you!

[Crow]

That's a nice solution, couple people ask about not showing desktop on startup in the past. I will refer them to this post next time

[Codiox]

Awesome! Could you make a 4k version? 3840x2160.

Thank you!

[Tactical_Bill]

I really like these wallpapers, THANK YOU!

I tried to make it even more seamless by hiding the taskbar (semi)permanently with this app https://www.eusing.com/hidewindows/bosskey.htm and making the mouse cursor hide with an app called AutoHideMouseCursor. The cursor seems to hide just fine and hiding the taskbar works great at just the desktop, but as soon as an app is opened, the taskbar comes back. I do have it set to minimize natively with Windows, but it still shows a tiny line at the bottom. 

Does anybody else have any ideas to semi-permanently hide the taskbar?

[sheepbeep]

The taskbar is part of the explorer, so if you want to get rid of it, terminate it (explorer.exe).

Caveat:
- Windows Shell Explorer does not run, so no file browsing (obviously)
- you cannot terminate the explorer via task manager anymore, the way to go is to open a command line and "taskkill /f /im explorer.exe" it.

[sheepbeep]

It just happens that I stumbled over a freeware program which will do exactly that you are looking for:
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/06/taskba...m-windows/

[Tactical_Bill]

It just happens that I stumbled over a freeware program which will do exactly that you are looking for:
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/06/taskba...m-windows/

that’s the same app I was using. It deactivates each time a new application is opened.

[lukeskope]

any way you can share the 2560x1080 wallpaper, maybe google driver or something?

Thanks!

[Luka8989]

I solved it with a program that practically made the start bar transparent or invisible for me, removed the start logo, the all black background to adapt it to my theme, do you know if you can remove the windows logo and that of access when starting Windows ?

[Kosnix]

I solved it with a program that practically made the start bar transparent or invisible for me, removed the start logo, the all black background to adapt it to my theme, do you know if you can remove the windows logo and that of access when starting Windows ?

You can put a batch script with the task scheduler for close explorer and start  playnite. Or you Can change the explorer shell for playnite.
For the boot logo you Can use "hack bgrt togo"

[Luka8989]

I solved it with a program that practically made the start bar transparent or invisible for me, removed the start logo, the all black background to adapt it to my theme, do you know if you can remove the windows logo and that of access when starting Windows ?

You can put a batch script with the task scheduler for close explorer and start  playnite. Or you Can change the explorer shell for playnite.
For the boot logo you Can use "hack bgrt togo"

I also need to be able to use the PC in a normal way so it must be a simple and reversible thing on the fly otherwise I won't do it, if it is easily reversible would you explain me how to proceed?

[Kosnix]

I solved it with a program that practically made the start bar transparent or invisible for me, removed the start logo, the all black background to adapt it to my theme, do you know if you can remove the windows logo and that of access when starting Windows ?

You can put a batch script with the task scheduler for close explorer and start  playnite. Or you Can change the explorer shell for playnite.
For the boot logo you Can use "hack bgrt togo"

I also need to be able to use the PC in a normal way so it must be a simple and reversible thing on the fly otherwise I won't do it, if it is easily reversible would you explain me how to proceed?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f0w_7Li...sp=sharing

you're in luck, i finished this yesterday. this is a set of .BAT files that I compiled with BatToExe. You still have the bat files if you want to adapt them. The files are recognized as viruses by my antivirus. I added it to the exception list.
If you turn off the computer from playnite, the shell will remain playnite until you close it

When launching the file "ConsoleMode.exe" Playnite in full screen is launched and the shell and change.
Periodically the script checks that Playnite is still in progress. When Playnite is closed, Explorer reverts to Shell and is relaunched.

sorry for my english

[Luka8989]

I solved it with a program that practically made the start bar transparent or invisible for me, removed the start logo, the all black background to adapt it to my theme, do you know if you can remove the windows logo and that of access when starting Windows ?

You can put a batch script with the task scheduler for close explorer and start  playnite. Or you Can change the explorer shell for playnite.
For the boot logo you Can use "hack bgrt togo"

I also need to be able to use the PC in a normal way so it must be a simple and reversible thing on the fly otherwise I won't do it, if it is easily reversible would you explain me how to proceed?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f0w_7Li...sp=sharing

you're in luck, i finished this yesterday. this is a set of .BAT files that I compiled with BatToExe. You still have the bat files if you want to adapt them. The files are recognized as viruses by my antivirus. I added it to the exception list.
If you turn off the computer from playnite, the shell will remain playnite until you close it

When launching the file "ConsoleMode.exe" Playnite in full screen is launched and the shell and change.
Periodically the script checks that Playnite is still in progress. When Playnite is closed, Explorer reverts to Shell and is relaunched.

sorry for my english

When I turn on the pc, if I have to wait a few seconds for explorer to be closed it doesn't make sense, I just stay like that

[McLeanGabrielle]

Welcome aboard!!

[Gildum]

Does anybody else have any ideas to semi-permanently hide the taskbar?

A simple solution is using an ahk script, such as described here:
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=78568

You can use a hotkey (e.g. F10) to toggle the taskbar. 

I have set it up so the taskbar and mouse cursor hides automatically when launching a game via playnite, and becomes visible again when exiting the game. I can also press F10 anytime to toggle the taskbar, in case I ALT+TAB out of a game. In Playnite's global script settings you have to launch the specific ahk scripts, it would look like this for example:


Execute before starting a game:
Start-Process "C:\Scripts\hideTASKBAR.ahk"

Execute after exiting a game:
Start-Process "C:\Scripts\showTASKBAR.ahk"