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SimbaClaws

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Registered: 2014-02-05

Posts: 16

Animated mp4 wallpaper in Awesome wm?

I was wondering if it is possible to have an animated mp4 wallpaper as a background inside my awesome configuration.
Would installing xwinwrap and setting that up work even though I have a background setup in my theme.lua?
Or should I point awesome to a black background and draw xwinwrap on top of it?

What other packages are recommended for doing such a thing in awesome?

And please don't bash me about how it is useless and bad for performance, I know it is.
I'm waiting for something to finish and want to waste some time in the meanwhile by setting this up.

EDIT: nevermind I haven't looked at the documentation for awesome for this.

http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Video_wallpaper

My awesome wm crashes when I use -rootwin with mplayer though

Last edited by SimbaClaws (2014-06-04 11:48:58)

emacsomancer

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Registered: 2014-09-20

Posts: 211

Re: Animated mp4 wallpaper in Awesome wm?

I am interested in this as well, and also couldn't get the documented methods to work...