🎉 LiveLockPaper – v3.0.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Play count reliability – Reworked play-count tracking and reset behavior for lockscreen and wallpaper, with separate metadata handling and hybrid real-play threshold logic
• GTK4 helper counting path – Fixed subprocess/manual-next paths so play counts stay accurate when using helper renderer mode
• Reset play counts performance – Replaced heavy metadata rewrite behavior with lightweight playCount resets to prevent prefs lag/stutter

✨ Enhancements

• Preferences reorganization – Lock Screen, Wallpaper, and Debug tabs now use compact collapsed expanders for a cleaner and easier-to-scan layout
• Keep Awake feature – Added lockscreen keep-awake mode with configurable timeout and AC-aware behavior
• Lockscreen text customization – Added controls for command output, time/date/hint visibility, colors, font families, sizes, weights, styles, and custom time/date formats
• Greeting preset added – One-click preset inserts a time‑of‑day greeting (auto‑detects your name) and applies instantly in Preferences.
• Video list polish – Improved Add Videos/Add Folder layout and file-picker icon consistency
• Debug usability improvements – Added lightweight play-count reset controls with separate lockscreen/wallpaper/both actions

⚙️ Defaults Updated (Fresh Install)

• Keep Awake: disabled
• Keep Awake only on AC: enabled
• Keep Awake timeout: Never
• Lockscreen text customization: disabled
• Lockscreen command output command: empty
• Lockscreen custom time/date formats: empty (use GNOME defaults)

🎉 LiveLockPaper – v2.0.0

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Window positioning – Improved window positioning and helper window handling across multiple monitors
• Sleep/wake blocking – Fixed video processes blocking system sleep by properly destroying lockscreen videos on sleep and pausing wallpaper videos

✨ Enhancements

• Panel icon customization – Dynamic icons that change based on wallpaper/lockscreen state (standard GNOME icons or custom icons), or static custom icons
• Enhanced panel menu – Organized submenus for wallpaper and lockscreen settings
• Separate battery controls – Independent battery disable options for lockscreen and wallpaper (enabled by default to save battery)
• Enhanced pause when hidden – Three modes: Off, All monitors covered, or Any monitor covered
• Improved sleep/wake handling – Enhanced video pause/resume during system sleep/wake cycles (lockscreen is destroyed/recreated, wallpaper is paused/resumed)
• Verbose logging – Enhanced debug logging for troubleshooting (GTK helper windows, sleep/wake events, state changes)
• Folder scanning improvement – When scanning a folder for videos, the extension now replaces the current video list instead of appending to it, preventing duplicate entries
• Grayscale prompt – Option to enable grayscale effect on password prompt

📥 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/DeLuca21/LiveLockPaper.git

2. Install into your GNOME Shell extensions folder:

   cp -r LiveLockPaper ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/live-lockpaper@DeLuca21

   Or move it instead of copying:

   mv LiveLockPaper ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/live-lockpaper@DeLuca21

   If you used cp and no longer need the clone directory:

   rm -rf LiveLockPaper

3. Log out and back in (or restart GNOME Shell), then enable:

   gnome-extensions enable live-lockpaper@DeLuca21

🎉 LiveLockPaper – v1.0.0 (Initial Release)

🎉 LiveLockPaper – v1.0.0 (Initial Release)

🚀 First Release

This is the first public release of LiveLockPaper.

LiveLockPaper is a GNOME Shell extension for:

• video lock screen backgrounds
• optional video wallpaper
• per-monitor video support
• playlists with random or sequential playback
• auto FPS handling and quality/performance controls

✨ Core Capabilities

• Lock screen video playback with blur/prompt effect controls
• Optional desktop video wallpaper (can stay disabled until needed)
• Per-monitor configuration for lock screen and wallpaper
• Playlist support with folder/file selection and random order
• Top bar quick controls for common actions and toggles
• GTK4 renderer path (with legacy appsink fallback for compatibility)
• Battery-aware behavior and runtime safety handling across session transitions

⚙️ Default Setup (Fresh Install)

• Top bar quick-controls button: enabled
• Lock screen video: enabled
• Lock screen random order: enabled
• Lock screen auto FPS: enabled
• Change blur on password prompt: enabled
• Video wallpaper: disabled (opt-in)
• Wallpaper random order: enabled
• Wallpaper auto FPS: enabled
• Wallpaper per-monitor mode: enabled
• Wallpaper render quality: 90%
• Force legacy appsink renderer: disabled
• Pause wallpaper when hidden: enabled

📥 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/DeLuca21/LiveLockPaper.git

2. Install into your GNOME Shell extensions folder:

   cp -r LiveLockPaper ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/live-lockpaper@DeLuca21

   Or move it instead of copying:

   mv LiveLockPaper ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/live-lockpaper@DeLuca21

   If you used cp and no longer need the clone directory:

   rm -rf LiveLockPaper

3. Log out and back in (or restart GNOME Shell), then enable:

   gnome-extensions enable live-lockpaper@DeLuca21