# Wallpaper Engine Patch Released - Wallpaper Flipping, Mute per Monitor & Much More (Build 1.3.2)

- Product: Wallpaper Engine (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/wallpaper-engine)
- Vendor: Wallpaper Engine
- Date: 2020-07-11
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/431960/view/2536038699720181923
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/wallpaper-engine/releases/2020-07-11-patch-released-wallpaper-flipping-mute-per-monito

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- **added** — Add the ability to flip Scene wallpapers horizontally from the properties list
- **added** — Add the ability to launch wallpapers, playlists, or multi-monitor profiles when a specific executable is launched on the system through Application Rules
- **added** — Add a mute button to each monitor to control which monitor plays audio from wallpapers
- **added** — Add the ability to choose which monitor controls LED hardware colors for Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE devices
- **added** — Add local author blocking functionality allowing users to right-click wallpapers to block their authors and move them to the bottom of search results
- **added** — Add page selection dialog when clicking the pagination button in wallpaper search
- **added** — Add rotary control for direction-based effects in the editor
- **added** — Add scrolling support in the playlist section by hovering over corners and using the mouse wheel
- **changed** — Limit Scene wallpapers with parallax effects to the constraints of their assigned screen to prevent breaking when mouse moves across multiple monitors
- **changed** — Revise the wallpaper info section on the right-hand side with a cleaned up and modernized design
- **changed** — Improve translations for multiple languages
- **removed** — Disable selection of DirectX 9 and OpenGL rendering options in settings

Hey everyone,

we're happy to release Wallpaper Engine **1.3**. The update brings a large number of new features, performance improvements and various bug fixes.

##### Scene Wallpaper Flipping

One of the update highlights is the new ability to flip _Scene_ wallpapers. You can now click on the **Flip** button in the properties list of your Scene wallpapers and it will flip the wallpaper horizontally. This was a common feature request and may be useful if you feel like a wallpaper might suite your room better in a flipped state or if you are using multiple monitors and want to use the same wallpaper twice, facing different directions. Keep in mind that due to technical limitations, this is only possible for Scene wallpapers.

_[(Swimming Pool Car wallpaper by 孟婆干杯)](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2143757223)_

##### Launching Wallpapers per Application

We have extended the **Application rules** of Wallpaper Engine so that it's now possible to open a wallpaper, a playlist or a complete multi-monitor profile when a certain .exe is launched on your system. This lets you choose the right wallpapers for what you are doing at a given time. For example, this allows you to automatically open an audio visualizer whenever you launch your favorite music player or switch to a less distracting wallpaper on your secondary monitor whenever you launch a certain game.

This option can be found as part of the **Application Rules**, keep in mind that for multi-monitor setups, you need to assign a profile to an executable which defines which wallpapers are visible on which screen.

##### Improved Multi-Monitor Experience

This update improves the ability to configure multi-monitor setups and adds some quality-of-life improvements to these types of setups. We have reworked the multi-monitor setup and added **a mute button to each monitor** (speaker icon in the lower left corner of each screen). This effectively lets users choose a main monitor responsible for playing audio rather than wallpapers across all monitors producing sound at the same time.

Users of Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE hardware are now also able to choose a monitor within the LED plugin which is responsible for the colors sent to their hardware. Previously the main monitor was forced to be responsible here though this may not have always been what users wanted.

Another change we have made is that Scene wallpapers with a parallax effect are now limited to the constraints of the screen they are on. Previously, if you had moved your mouse across multiple monitors, wallpapers with a parallax effect would often break. We think this change will increase the popularity of wallpapers with parallax effects on multi-monitor setups.

##### Local Author Blocking

A frequent request we have received over the years was to add the blocking of individual authors. One issue with this is that Steam does not support this kind of functionality but due to the demand for this, we have now implemented a local blocking functionality in Wallpaper Engine. You can now right-click on a wallpaper to block its author, which will always move all wallpapers to the bottom of the search results page and darken them. It's not possible for us to remove authors from the results altogether but this should be a good compromise. The following screenshot shows a row of blocked wallpapers at the bottom:

_Be sure to check out [historyk's wallpapers](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198268929778/myworkshopfiles/) rather than blocking them as in the screenshot above! :eaglegag:_

##### User Interface Improvements

As with the previous updates, we have made improvements all throughout the user interface of Wallpaper Engine. The most noticeable change of this update is the revised wallpaper info section on the right-hand side which has been cleaned up and modernized according to some user feedback we have received.

Other user interface changes include a new page selection when clicking on t

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