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Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Post your animated wallpapers!

Does not matter if you created them, as long as you have the right to distribute them!

I'll start, Just now created these 2 wallpapers (one animated and one static version), it's inspired by another wallpaper which source I'm not able to find.

Youtube demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39titInaGQs

Full MP4: http://haikarainen.dotgeek.org/archbg.mp4
Static version: http://haikarainen.dotgeek.org/archbg.png

The cursor blinks repeatedly, and the logo flickers every 10th second. Seamless loop of course.

Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

While I'm at it I should post my other animated background I created some month ago. No static version on this one though.

Youtube Demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gis7StNxI4
Full MP4: http://haikarainen.dotgeek.org/animbg.mp4

Seamless loop on this as well. Basically a city overview from a rainy window.

Jellicent

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2013-09-13

Posts: 189

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

This seems interesting. How does one go about using it?

Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

This seems interesting. How does one go about using it?

Hehe I have no idea, I've googled and seen some alternatives for both Gnome and KDE, but not tested anything yet!
Anyway I know it is possible and youtube is full of examples of linux live wallpapers, I've been thinking of writing something myself if I can't get anything else working. If I do it will be for KDE.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

mplayer <video> -rootwin

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Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

mplayer <video> -rootwin

This doesn't seem to work with KDE (at least with multiple monitors setup).

Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

mplayer <video> -rootwin

This doesn't seem to work with KDE (at least with multiple monitors setup).

Found one for KDE that works, even if it's in some weird language I managed to download the tar and build it with no problems! Works like a charm!

http://www.jarzebski.pl/projekty/dreamdesktop.html

firekage

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From: Eastern Europe, Poland

Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 623

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

mplayer <video> -rootwin

This doesn't seem to work with KDE (at least with multiple monitors setup).

Found one for KDE that works, even if it's in some weird language I managed to download the tar and build it with no problems! Works like a charm!

http://www.jarzebski.pl/projekty/dreamdesktop.html

It is not "some weird language" but in POLISH, language that comes from Poland - central Europe, Warsaw is capitol...country with Wałęsa...which bring down USSR to end...

Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

This doesn't seem to work with KDE (at least with multiple monitors setup).

Found one for KDE that works, even if it's in some weird language I managed to download the tar and build it with no problems! Works like a charm!

http://www.jarzebski.pl/projekty/dreamdesktop.html

It is not "some weird language" but in POLISH, language that comes from Poland - central Europe, Warsaw is capitol...country with Wałęsa...which bring down USSR to end...

Hehe good point. Still it's not internationally spoken.

Last edited by Haikarainen (2013-11-04 00:01:24)

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

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Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

^ A language is not weird if it is not internationally spoken...

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Haikarainen

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 93

Re: Post your animated wallpapers!

^ A language is not weird if it is not internationally spoken...

No it's not, it was a mistake to call a language weird because I could not identify it. Polish isn't weird. Although it sounds kinda weird to me, who is swedish.

Can we please stay on topic?