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Friday, June 4th 2004, 9:31pm

animated desktop

I wondered how I could create an animated desktop. Like the active desktop in windows.

I found a thread (that is closed) that says to do
kstart --type Desktop --window mplayer mplayer -nosound -fs movie.avi

But it just opens a window with the movie.
I also tried:
kstart --type Desktop --onbottom --window mplayer mplayer -nosound -fs movie.avi
But it doesn't change a lot. It plays the movie in front of everything else and I can't get it to the background.

What should I do?

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Saturday, June 5th 2004, 7:18am

I discovered that I could use "-fstype layer=15" for mplayer so it draws on the background.

I also found that you should be able to draw to the desktop background. (the root window) if you use "-rootwin" for mplayer. But that just doesn't draw anything at all.
What could be the problem here?

With the first option you draw it in the background, but it isn't handled as if it is the background. It is just a program. So you can't do the things by clicking on it that you could do if it was the background. Are there ways to make the background?

Thanks

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Sunday, June 6th 2004, 7:37pm

I think you have to actiavte support for such programs in the control center, somewhere in the desktop settings.

Or not run KDesktop at all, just the other program.

Cheers,
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Wednesday, June 16th 2004, 1:16pm

you've got to allow desktop programs. right-click on desktop - configure destkop - and you see:
* show icons on desktop
* allow programs on desktop

guess that's it ;-)
-=| life sucks deeply |=-

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Wednesday, June 16th 2004, 3:33pm

Maybe this goes without saying, but:
Make sure to disable also any background image you might have configured.

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Tuesday, September 21st 2004, 10:33am

Did U find it ?

I'm also interested to have what I've seen in a Linux meeting some years ago : an animated gif on the desktop.