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namida12
I use the dark city wallpaper and saw this posting on Mastodon. Quote: “Add videos as wallpaper on your Linux desktop”
https://opensource.com/article/20/7/linux-wallsetGot me daydreaming, a one hour video of the moon rising on the left and scrolling in an slow arc across the screen, a repeating video animation would be an interesting endeavor.
I wonder if there are other ways to address this with less memory usage?Has anyone experimented with this type of wallpaper eye candy?
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Dave
Hmm, no I have not.
Making it less resource hungry… there is a random timed wallpaper option that could possibly be made optional. Random vs Sequential. Then you could have numerous pictures in a sequence cycling through them from a folder which would give the illusion of a video. (unless you sit there and watch your wallpaper) Then again the system would flicker every wallpaper cycle.Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
Anonymous
ways to address this with less memory usage
https://opensource.com/article/20/7/linux-wallset
can specify path to an mp4 video file and this will display (loop) the first 10 seconds of the video.
wallset is a bash script; its only dependencies are: feh, ffmpeg, imagemagick(provides the ‘convert’ command), xrandr, sed, and xdg-utils
https://github.com/terroo/wallsetDave
ways to address this with less memory usage
https://opensource.com/article/20/7/linux-wallset
can specify path to an mp4 video file and this will display (loop) the first 10 seconds of the video.
wallset is a bash script; its only dependencies are: feh, ffmpeg, imagemagick(provides the ‘convert’ command), xrandr, sed, and xdg-utils
https://github.com/terroo/wallsetInteresting. Seems to use ffmpeg to convert the video file to several image files. Then cycles through those image files for the wallpaper via feh.
Quite a new project by the look of it. Also has hooks for gnome.Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
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