Stop the live wallpaper when specific applications is running about gnome-ext-hanabi HOT 7 OPEN

Hi @sekalengrengginang, thanks for the feature request!

When specific apps like Steam is running the live wallpaper is stop/paused for better performance in-game.

While this is technically possible, Linux does not have a real definition of "app", so it requires further consideration.
The GNOME definition of an app refers to a program that provides a "*.desktop" file that appears in the application menu.
However, some programs do not provide *.desktop. For example, most of the Steam games...

live wallpaper can be disabled/paused when using a fullscreen application

Yep, this feature is planned. 😎
As the first step, a simple toggle that allows users to play/pause the wallpaper will be added to the top bar.
Then we will work on window detection stuff so that it can pause the wallpaper if there is any fullscreen/maximized window.

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To add to this, maybe the live wallpaper can be disabled/paused when using a fullscreen application (like wallpaper engine provides a toggle to do this), this can maybe save battery life when using this on battery as well.

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I made my custom script with python/dbus. Main problem is to know is there any maximized and focused app so I used this to know it( it will be needed if you want to use my script, just install the extension). There is script:
fullscreen.txt

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However, some programs do not provide *.desktop. For example, most of the Steam games...

This can be circumvented by checking if steam itself is running, as well as wine and lutris. No need to actually check for other apps or games. The new background portal from GNOME may also come in handy for this purpose, as well as implementing it by itself in the project.

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The extension [email protected] kicks into enabled mode when an app is full-screen so maybe it can be figured out what they are using for it

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I wrote a small control command. I also assigned it to the hotkey. it's working for now.

*xprop must be installed.

if xprop -id $(xprop -root | awk '/_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW\(WINDOW\)/{print $NF}') | grep -q "_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN"; then
	/usr/bin/gnome-extensions disable [email protected]
else
	/usr/bin/gnome-extensions enable [email protected]
fi

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This feature would also be great for laptop users.

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