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    • burnout426
      burnout426 Volunteer @radio-richard last edited by

      @radio-richard Goto https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/details/beautiful-waterfall/ and install that animated wallpaper. Then, goto the URL opera://about and take note of the "profile" path. Close Opera and goto the profile folder in Windows Explorer/File Explorer.

      In the profile folder, there's a themes folder. Navigate to it. In the themes folder you'll see "beautiful-waterfall.zip". Right-click on it and extract . In it, you'll see persona.ini, first_frame_start_page.jpeg, and video.webm. Open persona.ini in a text editor to see how it references first_frame_start_page.jpeg and video.webm.

      So, to make your own animated wallpaper, you create a persona.ini that references a jpeg and a webm file. You then take personal.ini, the jpeg file, and the webm file and zip them up together into my_theme.zip.

      Then, in Opera, click the easy-setup button at the right of the address bar, scroll down to the start page section, click "add your wallpaper" and point it to my_theme.zip.

      Hope that helps.

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      • burnout426
        burnout426 Volunteer @radio-richard last edited by

        @radio-richard Another way to do it is to just add a webp animation file via "Add your wallpaper". To convert your existing video to a webp file, see https://forums.opera.com/post/252341 for one way to do it.

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        • jaswantwe
          jaswantwe @burnout426 last edited by

          @burnout426 said in Custom Animated Wallpaper:

          @radio-richard Another way to do it is to just add a webp animation file via "Add your wallpaper". To convert your existing video to a webp file, see https://forums.opera.com/post/252341 for one way to do it.

          let me check it though

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          • neiroe
            neiroe @burnout426 last edited by

            @burnout426 Hey there. I saw your replies in this thread, and another similar thread. They really do seem to be helpful and well informed, so I think I'm doing something wrong on my end. If you have the time, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could help me figure out why I haven't been able to get the results I want.
            I'm using the latest version of Opera GX (updated on the day I post this, June 2nd). Whenever I try to load in the wallpaper archive, literally nothing happens. The file explorer closes when I click to open the file, but the browser itself doesn't seem to have any desire to recognize it.

            My process is as follows, if that may shed any light on this.
            I downloaded the animated wallpaper with the waterfall. I extracted the files in its zip to my desktop, and created a new folder. I put in my video, and thumbnail, both renamed to fit the files in the waterfall wallpaper. I created a persona.ini file within the folder, and made the text match that of the waterfall video, with changes made to the "Name" "Author" and "Version" sections.

            If there's any way anyone can help me, then I'd greatly appreciate it if you did. If there's not, then thank you for taking the time to read this post.

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            • sgunhouse
              sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @neiroe last edited by

              @neiroe Most common problem is when you archive the file - you need to archive the folder it is in along with the files.

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              • burnout426
                burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                @neiroe If you double-left-click on the original beautiful-waterfall.zip to view its contents, you should see the 3 files and no folders. As in, persona.ini and the other files are in the root of the zip file. Double-left-click the zip file you created and make sure it's the same way.

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                • neiroe
                  neiroe @burnout426 last edited by

                  @burnout426 Yep, they're all in the root of the .zip, and not a folder. Still, no dice :p

                  @sgunhouse I'm sorry, I'm not exactly sure what you meant. I archived only the folder that the three files were inside of. Should I have gone a step above in the directory?

                  Thank you both for taking the time to reply to me.

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                  • burnout426
                    burnout426 Volunteer @neiroe last edited by burnout426

                    @neiroe What type of file are you using for the video? You can send me your whole zip file if you want so I can test it.

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                    • neiroe
                      neiroe @burnout426 last edited by

                      @burnout426 I'm using a webm file for the video.

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                      • burnout426
                        burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                        @sgunhouse, @neiroe sent me a link to the zip file. Tested it in my Opera GX and Opera on Windows 10 and the animated wallpaper works just fine.

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                        • neiroe
                          neiroe last edited by

                          The method itself doesn't seem to have any issues, tested in a standalone instance of Opera GX. Thank you all for your time.

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                          • miafrance
                            miafrance Banned last edited by

                            yes, but this method is not free.

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                            • aam2018
                              aam2018 last edited by

                              Here's what I did: https://davescomputertips.com/using-creating-animated-backgrounds-in-opera

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                              • Flynn
                                Flynn last edited by

                                @burnout426 thank you so much for the help with the live wallpaper stuff, I definitely wouldn't have figured it out on my own so your reply's were really helpful, at first it was a bit confusing but i got it in the end thanks to you!

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                                • akut
                                  akut @aam2018 last edited by

                                  @aam2018 I followed that step by step but the wallpaper doesn't show up. Any idea what I could do?

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                                  • aam2018
                                    aam2018 @akut last edited by

                                    @akut Can you add any animated wallpaper from https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/?tag=animated

                                    otherwise Double check:

                                    video is .webm format

                                    make sure your thumbnail graphic is jpg format and named "first_frame_start_page.jpg" or "first_frame_start_page.jpeg". If you use jpeg as the extension rename the extension in the persona.ini

                                    change the line "background = video.webm" to your actual video name. I don't know what the limit is in time or resolution so you might have to experiment there.

                                    Put your name in the name field but I just tried it with all the info lines left blank and it still worked.

                                    We Need A Text File Named persona.ini make sure the extension here is .ini and not .txt. When you make this file, before saving under file name, click on Save as type and switch from Text Documents (.txt) to All Files (.*)

                                    [Info]
                                    name =
                                    author =
                                    url =
                                    version =

                                    [Start Page]
                                    background = video.webm
                                    position = center center
                                    title text color = #FFFFFF
                                    title text shadow = #000000
                                    first frame image = first_frame_start_page.jpg

                                    zip up all three files into one zip which includes your video, thumbnail file, and persona.ini. Make sure it's a zip file and not 7zip or rar. I can confirm this also works in Opera GX.

                                    Be sure to change the Wallpaper image option to Wallpaper archive when choosing your wallpaper.

                                    Otherwise copy your zip file to this folder: C:\Users\Terry\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\themes (replace my name with your own account name. And see if you can add it.

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                                    • aam2018
                                      aam2018 @akut last edited by

                                      @akut Another option I forgot to mention is to Close Opera then go to : C:\Users(your account name)\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\themes, copy all the zip files there to another folder for backup and then delete all the zip folders there. Then open Opera again and try to add your wallpaper. You can salvage any other custom backgrounds through the backup zips.

                                      If you can't see these folders, to unhide them: Type folder options in search, then click on it in the list, then click on the View tab, go to the Advanced settings list scroll down to the Hidden files and folders and check Show hidden files, folders and drives.

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                                      • Lucifero-Devil
                                        Lucifero-Devil @burnout426 last edited by

                                        @burnout426 how to add custom live wallpaper ?

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                                        • burnout426
                                          burnout426 Volunteer @Lucifero-Devil last edited by

                                          @lucifero-devil See my previous comments in this thread for directions. If you get stuck on a certain part, you can ask for clarification.

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                                          • originalburger
                                            originalburger @burnout426 last edited by

                                            @burnout426 im stuck as to how to get it to work, because when i select the file, it just decides to not work
                                            could u help? id really appreciate it

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