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I'd love to have such wallpapers on my laptop. But I haven't found a good way to do so.

• hartror 10y ago
  That would be magical.
• kevindeasis 10y ago
  Now that you've mentioned it. That would actually be phenomenal. My background would absolutely look nicer with these GIFs
• hanief 10y ago
  If my iPhone lock screen can use these it will be neat.
  • dingo_bat 10y ago
    Android can do live wallpapers, but they use so much battery that I avoid it.
• sikhnerd 10y ago
  In the past on os x I've converted them to a movie and used SaveHollywood[1] to make them into a screensaver, then used the trick outlined here[2] to make that into the active desktop background. I stopped because it used quite a bit of cpu/battery. I remember doing the same trick on linux many years ago using xwinwrap on gnome. [1] http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood/about.html http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood/about.html [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/43rrf0/pixel_art_gif_as_desktop_background/czl4h35 https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/43rrf0/pixel_art_gif_a...
• BEEdwards 10y ago
  Ironically this was trivial in windows xp, but they took the ability out.
  • dingo_bat 10y ago
    I think it was Vista that had the dreamscenes.
    • zardo 10y ago
      95 through XP had active desktop.
• david-given 10y ago
  For a while I used to run the Helios screensaver as a wallpaper on my desktop: http://www.reallyslick.com/screensavers/ http://www.reallyslick.com/screensavers/ It runs quite happily on the root window on a multimonitor setup. But I eventually turned it off after deciding that I never saw my wallpaper much anyway, and having flickering things in the corner of the monitor was making me twitchy.
• iso-8859-1 10y ago
  Easy in KDE: http://askubuntu.com/a/533392/19466 http://askubuntu.com/a/533392/19466