Wallper 1.0.9: Start Live Wallpapers Automatically When Your Mac Logs In
Turn on Start on Login once and your live wallpaper is running the moment you sign in, with no app to open and nothing to reapply after a restart.
Before 1.0.9, restarting your Mac meant your desktop came back plain.
Not broken, just ordinary. The wallpaper you had chosen was still there in the app, waiting to be opened and applied again. You would sign in, notice the static background, remember, open Wallper, set it, and get on with your day.
It took about eight seconds. It also happened every single restart, and eight seconds you have to remember is worse than eight seconds you do not.
Start on Login
Wallper now supports Start on Login. Turn it on once in Settings, General, and the app launches with macOS and applies your wallpaper as you sign in.
There is no window to dismiss and no icon bouncing in the Dock. Wallper starts in the menu bar, restores what you had, and stays out of the way. By the time your desktop is drawn, the wallpaper is already moving.
That is the entire feature, and it is one toggle, but it changes what the app is. A wallpaper you have to reapply is a tool you operate. A wallpaper that is simply there is part of the machine.
Who Actually Notices
If you restart once a month this is a nicety.
If you shut down every evening, it is the difference between Wallper being something you use and something you have. The same applies if you switch between displays during the day, log in and out of different sessions, or work somewhere that enforces a restart schedule.
It also matters for anyone who bought Wallper for one specific reason: making a workspace look a particular way. A setup that only exists after you manually rebuild it is not really a setup.
Starting Quietly Is Part of the Job
Launching at login is an easy feature to implement badly. Plenty of apps take it as licence to open a window, show a changelog, ask for a review, or sit in the Dock advertising themselves.
An app that starts with your Mac has a specific obligation, which is to be invisible. You did not open it. You should not have to close it.
Wallper starts in the background, restores the wallpaper, and shows nothing. If you want it, it is in the menu bar. If you do not, you will not notice it is running, which is the point.
That principle carried through everything after this release: Battery-Aware Mode deciding for itself when to pause, silent background updates, and wallpapers restoring after sleep without being asked.
You can turn Start on Login off again at any time in the same place you turned it on.
