Animating Desktop

[Mr. Boogs]

I have a friends who found a way to make his buddy icon his wallpaper, with the animations, and everything, and I was just wondering if that was possible for mac, I have 10.2.8

[varmit]

and i put an animated gif file as my desktop and it didn't move. But you can set up for your desktop to change between pictures, every 5 seconds at the fastest. Both of those I don't think were included with 10.2. So look around for some shareware, might have something out there.

[Mr. Boogs]

oh well, one of the few disadvantages of being a mac head

[Kingsnapped]

I believe there is a little osX app that lets you use a screensaver as your desktop. That would be a step in the right direction. I'll hunt around for it...

[g30ffr3y]

Originally posted by Kingsnapped
I believe there is a little osX app that lets you use a screensaver as your desktop. That would be a step in the right direction. I'll hunt around for it...

its out there... i had it for a while... turned out to be more annoying than anything... i dont remember what its called though...

[Kingsnapped]

Woo here (http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/xback.html) it is. Now we just have to figure out how to animate a screensaver.

/200th post.

[Megaquad]

There is an app that lets you use Flash movie (.swf) as desktop background in OSX.
Unfortunately I can't remember its name.
Edit, found app: http://www.screentime.com/swf_desktop/swf_desktop_main.html

[maxterpiece]

i just downloaded an awesome animated GIF and i really want to make it animate as my desktop pattern. I know in windows this is no problem (although in my experience it is always annoying as hell). I know i will be sick of it in a week, but I REALLY want it to work for some reason.

Suggestions are highly appreciated!

[Daveway]

Don't forget Visage can do animate almost anything on your desktop.

[tech4all]

i just downloaded an awesome animated GIF and i really want to make it animate as my desktop pattern. I know in windows this is no problem (although in my experience it is always annoying as hell). I know i will be sick of it in a week, but I REALLY want it to work for some reason.

Suggestions are highly appreciated!

If you make a special folder for desktop images, you can go to System Preferences > screensavers, and choose that folder and images in it. Pick the animated gif and see if it animates on the desktop.

[Muskie]

Another good Screensaver wallpaper app is called BackLight2, and its by Freshly Squeezed software.

[maxterpiece]

thanks for replies, everyone. Sounds good. I will try them out when I get back from work.