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Animated Desktop Backgrounds?
2005-01-20, 7:18 PM #1
I'm sure that this is possible, and they may already exist. But if not, is it possible to have an animated desktop background? That's something I'm sure that would be popular. If not, why not?
Who made you God to say "I'll take your life from you"?
2005-01-20, 7:19 PM #2
Because it's annoying as hell.
Think while it's still legal.
2005-01-20, 7:20 PM #3
You have to enable your active desktop if you're on windows.
It's not popular because it's annoying. ...... Actually it'd be cool if someone made one worth using....

I'm gonna go try to make one worth using YEAH!
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2005-01-20, 7:20 PM #4
Err...I mean if it's not possible, why not?
Who made you God to say "I'll take your life from you"?
2005-01-20, 7:21 PM #5
its possible, but what the hell could possibly drive you to do such a thing?
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2005-01-20, 7:22 PM #6
I think a cool animated background could be the deletion process of the windows folder (and yeah, I had someone dumb enough in my programming class to do this. The teacher went crazy on him)!
Who made you God to say "I'll take your life from you"?
2005-01-20, 7:30 PM #7
Anyone remember the gif of those stick figures running up the ladders and such? Tiled, that made an awesome background
2005-01-20, 7:32 PM #8
Yes, an animated GIF is pretty common choice for a background. Yes, it is very annoying. Try this one and see how you like it...

:p
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2005-01-20, 7:35 PM #9
I can't remember who posted the .gif file I'm using as my background now, but they would use it for their massassi avatar (if they were allowed) and it's the evil pointing monkey from family guy. Not annoying, and still amusing :)
Who made you God to say "I'll take your life from you"?
2005-01-20, 7:46 PM #10
That was Chaz, IIRC.
2005-01-20, 7:58 PM #11
Yes

http://www.missouri.edu/~msc42/rotsnake.gif

[edit: Image too wide. The maximum width is 800! - GoY]
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2005-01-20, 8:01 PM #12
Doesn't have multiple frames, but optical illusions are COOL!
Who made you God to say "I'll take your life from you"?
2005-01-20, 8:16 PM #13
I use zMatrix, a program that generates the matrix style code and makes it blanket your desktop wallpaper. Looks really cool, and not annoying at all. There's even a switch in the taskbar for it, and it doesn't generate code unless you are looking at it :)
2005-01-20, 8:20 PM #14
try tiling this
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2005-01-20, 9:30 PM #15
I'm starting to see SWF wallpapers, which are pretty cool. Some group[s] makes them to promote video games and movies. I've seen a The Incredibles one and a Zelda Four Swords Adventure one.

Although all they've done is let you choose different wallpapers and have a "slideout" solid color part for your icons to sit on. :) Something a bit more innovative would rock.

Oh, and setting Winamp 3/5 to show the visulisations on the desktop always beats putting them in its little window. :p

2005-01-21, 12:44 AM #16
linux you can root almost any screensaver and alots of other program into the background wallpaper :-) which is cool if theyre a good program, such as an 3d earth rotating at real time, you wouldn't really notice it unleast you look at it then look at it again a few hours later and so forth.
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2005-01-21, 4:49 AM #17
Quote:
Originally posted by GrndAdmThrawn
linux you can root almost any screensaver and alots of other program into the background wallpaper :-) which is cool if theyre a good program, such as an 3d earth rotating at real time, you wouldn't really notice it unleast you look at it then look at it again a few hours later and so forth.


Or make mplayer play in the root window and have any video you like as your background. :D
2005-01-21, 5:22 AM #18
Quote:
Originally posted by Mikus
Anyone remember the gif of those stick figures running up the ladders and such? Tiled, that made an awesome background
2005-01-21, 6:28 AM #19
You can make yourself a .swf desktop if you make it into an html file and set that as your desktop.
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2005-01-21, 8:52 AM #20
Quote:
Originally posted by Connection Problem
I use zMatrix, a program that generates the matrix style code and makes it blanket your desktop wallpaper. Looks really cool, and not annoying at all. There's even a switch in the taskbar for it, and it doesn't generate code unless you are looking at it :)


I was going to mention this - it's cool, but it did my head in after a while too.
2005-01-21, 9:33 AM #21
it had some problems when I used it, namely it sometimes went over desktop icons making them hard/impossible to see, that's what annoyed me about it.
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2005-01-21, 9:36 AM #22
The thing about animated desktops is that you have to activate Active Desktop, which takes way up too much resources.
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2005-01-21, 10:04 AM #23
I've had a (partially) animated desktop for as long as I can remember.
I have that hand-written clock in the top right of my desktop.
I know I dont need an extra clock (the windows bar one works just fine) but it just looks cool.
And for now I have a fully animated desktop, thanks to those crazy stickmen.
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2005-01-21, 10:18 AM #24
Quote:
Originally posted by Nightwind
Yes, an animated GIF is pretty common choice for a background. Yes, it is very annoying. Try this one and see how you like it...

:p


I don't like looking at THAT one.

Well, I kinda do, but you get the point.
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2005-01-21, 11:43 AM #25
What I want to know, is can you set a movie as your background?
2005-01-21, 11:48 AM #26
yes, open it in bsplayer and hit 'd' ;)
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2005-01-21, 11:50 AM #27
I happen to have this amazing animated .gif as my background, though, sadly, I still have yet to find a song to which he isn't a little offbeat in his dancing.

[http://img127.exs.cx/img127/8599/hammer5cv.gif]

Feel free to use it.
2005-01-21, 12:39 PM #28
Quote:
Originally posted by Omicron88


That is now my tiled desktop.
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2005-01-21, 12:57 PM #29
I'd love to see a background of a beach with animated water and maby some grass gently swaying in the breeze.

That'd be cool.
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2005-01-21, 1:21 PM #30
Quote:
Originally posted by djwguitarman
I'd love to see a background of a beach with animated water and maby some grass gently swaying in the breeze.

That'd be cool.

OMG that's what I'm making...
stop stalking me...
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2005-01-21, 1:26 PM #31
post some nice desktops when your done
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2005-01-21, 1:26 PM #32
Hey, that sounds pretty cool
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2005-01-21, 1:29 PM #33
It's actually a beach scene with a palm tree and some grass and water. All has animation, but just subtle stuff so it's not annoying. I'm doing it with vectors, though, and since I'm not very good at those yet it'll take a little bit (plus I have to spend all day cleaning off and defragging this HD). I'll make sure to post whatever I come up with.
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