Spotlight saver is a small app that saves your lockscreen spotlight photos and showcases them in a beautiful gallery.
- Save images in
C:\Users\Username\Pictures\Spotlight/ images\
- Set any image as the wallpaper
- App autostarts on boot but is minimized to the system tray (Low impact on memory)
- Beautiful UI and Gallery
This app uses a number of open source projects to work properly:
- Electron - Develop windows apps in javascript!
- WinJS - great Metro UI for Windows apps
- Node.js - evented I/O for the backend
And of course the app is open source with a public repository on GitHub.
- Download the
spotlight-saver-win32-x64.zip
from here. - Extract it and run
setup.exe
- Done!
Requirements:
Open powershell
/ git bash
/ terminal
in the folder where you want to run the app and enter the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/lewis-munyi/spotlight-saver.git
$ cd /spotlight-saver/
$ npm install
$ npm start main.js
To package the app for production run
$ electron-packager . --platform=win32
Navigate to the spotlight-saver folder that's been created and run setup.exe
...That's it!
This app wouldn't have been possible without the help of James Kimani and Codeburst
MIT
Free Software, Hell Yeah!