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lumaXMB Desktop Engine

A familiar wave.
A desktop of your own.

Live glass waves, rich gradients and quiet motion for your Windows desktop. Shape the wave, choose your atmosphere, and make room for the view.

Shape the motion.

Choose a wave design and motion preset. Adjust its scale, speed and flow with live controls.

Set the atmosphere.

Explore dark and vivid gradients, color shifting, softer Clear glass, glow and particles.

Across your screens.

Use one display or let the wave continue across your monitors, with controls for layout and quality.

Silk waves, Clear glass and a deep cobalt gradient.
02 / Cobalt silkSilk waves, Clear glass and a deep cobalt gradient.
Tide waves with a dark amethyst gradient and breathing glow.
03 / Amethyst tideTide waves with a dark amethyst gradient and breathing glow.

Clean captures from the running Wallpaper Engine project on the owner’s 4K display, with icons and controls out of view. Images open at full resolution.

Wallpaper Engine / Alpha 2026-10-25

Copy one folder. Pick it. Done.

For Windows 10/11 with Wallpaper Engine from Steam. Nothing to run and nothing to configure. The ZIP includes a step-by-step guide.

Download Desktop Engine ↓

ZIP · 442 KB · SHA-256 7916fc41b85528acc103abbf6d202532f7207bd5963a8a871a881c7815426d45

  1. Unzip the download.

    Right-click the ZIP, choose Extract All… and click Extract. Inside is a folder named lumaXMB Desktop Engine.

  2. Open the myprojects folder.

    In Steam: Library › right-click Wallpaper Engine › Manage › Browse local files, then open projects › myprojects.

  3. Copy the folder in.

    Drag lumaXMB Desktop Engine into myprojects. Opening it should show project.json straight away, not another folder.

  4. Pick it in Wallpaper Engine.

    Open the Installed tab, click lumaXMB Desktop Engine, choose your display and click OK. Not listed? Quit Wallpaper Engine from its tray icon and open it again.

Change the look: click the ⚙ gear at the bottom-right of your desktop, or use Wallpaper Engine's settings on the right. Your choices are remembered. Update: replace the folder in myprojects. Remove: pick another wallpaper and delete the folder.

This is an alpha package for feedback and logs. Discord testing channel ↗ · Report an issue ↗

Optional · live-settings helper (launcher EXE)

The helper adds mouse-wheel scrolling and dragging inside the desktop gear menu, keeps the gear menu and Wallpaper Engine's sidebar in sync, and detects your monitor layout for spanning one wave across displays. Install the folder above first; the helper is not required.

  1. Download and extract.

    Download the launcher package ↓ and keep the extracted folder in a permanent, writable location.

    ZIP · 13.1 MB · SHA-256 b7b0bce31089a9c15d2d3ba982b322f7a79648a27c7874fb18edb344856f3d2e

  2. Open lumaXMB Desktop Engine.exe.

    It finds Wallpaper Engine, starts the helper and opens its own copy of the wallpaper. If asked, select wallpaper64.exe in your Wallpaper Engine folder.

  3. After a restart.

    Open the launcher again to start the helper. To stop it, open Stop Desktop Engine.exe.

Requires Wallpaper Engine

Install Wallpaper Engine from Steam before installing Desktop Engine.

Wallpaper Engine on Steam ↗