Comments on: Animated Wallpaper on your Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop

By: Coeur

Coeur — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:19:05 +0000

i found a solution to use an mplayer animated desktop and still have visibility and ability to click the icons on the desktop.
use the following options for xwinwrap

xwinwrap -ni -o 0.4 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf — mplayer -wid WID -nosound -loop 0 /home/coeur/Desktop/HP.mp4

where /home/coeur/Desktop is the location of your mp4 or avi file

Enjoy your animated desktop

By: deadBee

deadBee — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:21:31 +0000

Ive activated it, it worked -almost- well but i couldnt close it and return to m desktop again for a few minutes. I dont know how but it disables my keyboard and mouse and I ve no idea how I was able to close it.

Does anyone else have the same problem?

By the way, i wanted an animated background, not a screen saver. Isnt there any other way so that I can access icons, folders or at least my terminal when its raining the letters of matrix in my background?

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Web Hosting Wal — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:43:47 +0000

How do you do it if I want to make some computer wallpaper images that have a monthly calendar overlayed on them. Does anyone know of a plug-in for PS that can do this?

Thanks.

By: altromer521

altromer521 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:23:15 +0000

I also couldn’t see my desktop with this on. It was just like a screensaver running. It also was also very jumpy wish I could get this to work!

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By: Ubuntuser

Ubuntuser — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:23:51 +0000

“Holy cow!
i couldn’t acess my desktop when this thing was on.
The wallpaper would overlay the application window,
anyways what about that polaroid effect we talked about?”

i completely agree with u.
this thing completely blocks my screen and prevents me from accessing anything. BTW: I have an ATI graphics card.

By: gavintlgold

gavintlgold — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:08:27 +0000

@iampriteshdesai:

If you have not so good drivers that happens. You might also notice the same sort of effect with the screensaver preview app–the preview doesn’t always stay in the box where it belongs, but leaves artifacts.

I can attest that at least one of the Dell Inspiron series laptops has trouble, but nvidia cards work well with it.