macOS lacks a simple lightweight live-wallpaper app
A user notes macOS has no lightweight alternative to Windows' Wallpaper Engine for live video wallpapers, and built one themselves. Since the gap is already filled by the author's own tool, this does not represent an open building opportunity.
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