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Calimero is a lightweight, high-performance, old-school Win32 console application designed to enhance your Windows desktop in the simplest and most unobtrusive way.
Main core features of Calimero are managing and displaying local images as desktop wallpaper and fetching/downloading pictures from the Internet, from sites like Picsum, Pexels, Reddit, and Danbooru.
Features
- The Gallerist: Supporting of all native Windows modes (stretch, center, tile, fit, fill, and span), plus custom modes, such as cover, alternate and the exclusive gallery mode to adapt the images on-the-fly.
- Web Fetching: Direct images fetching from the web, using free services like Picsum, Pexels, Reddit and Danbooru.
- Multi-monitor / Dual Screen: Native multi-monitor/dual screen support for wide wallpapers, 4K assets, and complex spanning without distortion or quality loss.
- Graphic Filters: Professional-grade filters via integrated libraries (paintLib, NexgenIPL, FreeImageRE, ImageMagick) and custom built-in effects like GhostTrail, Echo, Pixelate and more.
- Deep Customization: Print dynamic text over images, filter them by size or wildcards, sort them by name, size, etc.
- Hypersonic Loading: No more disk-thrashing or re-scanning directories every time you run it, thanks to a customized BerkeleyDB engine able to manage thousands of files instantly.
- Seamless Navigation: Wallpapers change via a configurable timer or global hotkeys.
- Native & Lightweight: Zero bloated frameworks, zero SLOP, no VIBE-coding. Just pure, "to-the-metal" Win32 C/C++. A small, black and ugly console app, deadly as a Ninja.
- 100% Free: NO telemetry, NO hidden connections, NO backdoors, NO buy me a coffee requests.
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