C'mon massassi, I know you guys are pack rats and keep stuff lying around your harddrives.

A year or so ago, someone posted a link to a program that you download and it animates your background, it either had swirling colors, a slideshow of your my pictures folder or you could just have a static background image and a modifyer would bounce round the screen warping the image.

does anyone know where I can get this program again, or at least the name of it? I've tried google but got nothing.

I have this running under Linux with XGL and compiz, but I guess that wasn't what you wanted to hear.

Automatic Wallpaper Changer (AWC) is what I use - free and spyware/adware-free.

http://awc.smurphy.co.uk/

I was thinking of something a little moe specific, you could either have a slide show of your "my pictures' folder with transitonal effects, have a single image with a thing bouncing around the screen and changing it or have a randomly created swirling effect on your desktop.

the result of the last one looked similar to a game of plama pong.

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I actually found it... after about 4 hours of searching on and off, I managed to find what I was looking for. it's called Drempels.

I think I tried that awhile back and hated it.... Sucked my resources and, from what I'm remembering, it looked fugly. Might be thinking something completely different.... Anyways, only animated desktop stuff I use on occasion is ZMatrix. Because having the Matrix code raining down my screen is fun to watch.

I tried zmatrix and it slowed my machine down ALOT more then drempels, I kind of like it, it's diffrent from what you normaly get.

*shrugs*
I tweaked my settings enough so slowdowns weren't as noticable. I use it mostly for a screensaver anyway.

Winamp can use video overlay and colorkeys and stuffs to put it's visualizations on the desktop. <3.

I enjoyed setting it to use black as the masking color, then the visualization would bleed through all the black in all my windows.