Animating Desktop

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Mr. Boogs

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Feb 10, 2004

• #1

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

macrumors 68000

• Feb 10, 2004

• #2

i have panther

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.

 

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Mr. Boogs

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Feb 14, 2004

• #3

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

 

Kingsnapped

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 14, 2004

• #4

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

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 14, 2004

• #5

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...

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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

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 14, 2004

• #6

got it!

Woo here it is. Now we just have to figure out how to animate a screensaver.

/200th post.

 

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Megaquad

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 14, 2004

• #7

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

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 4, 2005

• #8

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

macrumors 68040

• Feb 4, 2005

• #9

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

 

tech4all

macrumors 68040

• Feb 4, 2005

• #10

Haven't done with animated GIF but....

maxterpiece said:

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!

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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

macrumors 6502

• Feb 4, 2005

• #11

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

 

maxterpiece

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 7, 2005

• #12

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