How to upload your setup to the Steam Workshop

A setup is a .vealo file. Inside is your desktop exactly as it is now: theme, wallpaper or live wallpaper, widgets and where they sit, effects, lighting. The wallpaper image is packed into the file, so the subscriber gets exactly the same picture.

• Goes in. Theme and colours, wallpaper and video wallpaper, clock, player, system load, calendar, weather, notes as a widget, effects, lighting.
• Stays with you. Folders and files in the panel, note text, weather city, sounds from your own files, a custom cursor from a file.
• Size. Image up to 4K, video up to 2 GB. A subscriber has no reason to download more.
• Private. File paths and your Windows user name never enter the file: the picture travels as a picture, not as a path.

First arrange the desktop the way you want to show it. Then:

1. Open Studio and the Workshop tab.
2. Click Create a setup.
3. In the New setup window type a name and confirm with Enter. Everyone will see the name, so no caps lock and no odd symbols.

The file appears under My setups. For now it lives only on your PC: you can apply it, star it, rename it with a right click, or save it as a file and send it to a friend without Steam.

Steam must be running and you must be signed in. Right-click your setup and choose Publish to Steam. The Publish to the Workshop window opens.

This is the publish window. You can pick at most two moods.

1. Mood. One or two of eleven: Dark, Light, Minimal, Neon, Nature, Space, Anime, Cars, Retro, Gaming, Other. This is what the filters search by; without a mood the button will not work.
2. Age. “Everyone” or “18+”. With “18+” the mature content flag goes to Steam by itself, and you can add what exactly is inside: Nudity or sex or Violence or gore.
3. Type. The app detects it and shows it before you click: “Full desktop”, “Wallpaper and theme”, “Widget layout” or live wallpaper.
4. Click Publish.

Everything else the app fills in from the file itself: image resolution and aspect, main colour, which widgets are inside, whether there are effects and lighting, whether there are paid parts. You never type tags by hand, and they cannot lie.

A new item is visible only to you. That is on purpose: first you look at the page and check the name and preview, and only then open it to people.

1. Click Page in Steam in the app, or open the item in the Vealo Workshop on the Steam site.
2. In the owner controls on the right find Visibility and choose “Public”.
3. There you can also fix the title, description and images, and for adult setups check the content descriptors.

A few minutes later the setup shows up in the app under “New” and “My published”, and its card in “My setups” gets a Steam badge.

• Subscriptions. People click “Subscribe” right in the card, the file downloads, and the “Apply” and “Wallpaper only” buttons appear. Nobody has to take the whole desktop; a single picture is fine too.
• Ratings. Likes, dislikes and favourites are set from the card in the app and count in Steam right away, same as on the item page.
• Stats. On the item page in Steam the author has a “Stats” tab: views, subscriptions and favourites by day. In the app the like counts are shown in the card.
• Feedback. Comments and discussions live on the item page. Tick “Subscribe” there and new messages will arrive as Steam notifications.