Settings guide

At the top of the window

The banner shows what the Shimeji are up to: waiting, out, switched off or paused. The On switch turns them off completely. Try for 30 seconds brings them onto your screens right away, then sends them home. While they’re out, the button becomes Send them home.

General

Wait before they arrive

From 1 to 60 minutes, 5 by default. It’s the time without keyboard, mouse or gamepad on a screen before the first Shimeji shows up there.

They leave when I come back

On, they leave as soon as you’re back. Off, they stay until you send them home.

When I come back to a screen

They leave that screen: the ones on other screens stay. They leave every screen: everyone goes at once.

Start with Windows

Shimeji Desktop Reloaded starts with Windows and waits in the notification area, without opening a window.

Screens

The map shows your screens the way Windows arranges them. Click a screen to turn it on or off. You can pick up to three, and at least one must stay on. Each screen keeps its own idle time: if you stay on your main screen, the Shimeji can come out on the second one.

Behavior

Maximum number of Shimeji

From 1 to 30, 10 by default. One to three arrive first, then the others one by one up to that number.

A new Shimeji every…

From 1 to 60 minutes, 5 by default. It’s the time between two arrivals, up to the maximum number.

Mischief

They grab your windows and throw them. The windows go back where they were when you return. Turned off, they play with windows without moving them.

Play with windows

They climb on open windows, sit on the edges and hang from them.

Walk on the taskbar and docks

They stroll along the Windows taskbar, wherever it is, and on any dock you’ve installed. The app adapts to your desktop customizations on its own.

Not during videos

Nobody comes to a screen where a video is playing, in a player or in the browser.

Not during fullscreen games

Nobody comes to a screen taken by a fullscreen game or app.

Characters

Turn each character on or off, and add more from a file. It’s all explained on the Characters page.

Language

The app starts in your Windows language: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese or Japanese. The button at the bottom right lets you pick another one.

The icon next to the clock

One click opens the settings. Right-click it for:

• Try for 30 seconds, or Send them home if they’re out;
• Pause for an hour, handy during a video call or a presentation, then Resume;
• Quit, which sends the Shimeji home and closes the app.

While the Shimeji are out, a second small icon appears: it belongs to the Shimeji-ee engine. It goes away with them.

About

This tab shows the version, the licenses, and a button to open the log. The log records what the app does (arrivals, departures, screens), and never the titles of your windows. It helps make sense of odd behavior.