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Re:Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop by voltagex_ on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:30AM (#14693556)
Yep. You can now call these APIs from the desktop, AFAIK.
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Re:Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop by connorcpu on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:43AM (#14694473)
There may be a little more to it, but sadly after setting it up for a couple hours, it seems the TrySetLockScreenImageAsync method always returns failure from a non-UWP app :(

If anyone else wants to tinker with it https://gist.github.com/Connicpu/8b092b2c0ad539573b893dbca54...

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Re:Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop by voltagex_ on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:49AM (#14694495)
Sorry. Seems it's limited in what paths pictures can be loaded from. Bloody Microsoft.
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