can you help me find a "moving" desktop theme

[logic0010]

does anyone know where i can find something like this
looking for a {screen saver} thats a background

hopefuly you know what i mean.

 

[nweaver]

find an animated gif. This is resource intensive, as a warning.

 

[logic0010]

im hoping to find a way to make the ever so pouplar fish tank screen savor
my desktop background with movement

as far as resources go i think i have it covered

 

[Fistandantilis]

you can play around with the setings in winamps visuals and get it to extend to your desktop, but it would all be random. I ran that on my P3 lappy with 256 megs of ram and it diddnt soak it all that much, good luck

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: logic0010
does anyone know where i can find something like this
looking for a {screen saver} thats a background

hopefuly you know what i mean.

the only way I know off is through running windowblinds and loading the stock fish widget and it's interactive too.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

create an html page and set it as your active desktop

 

[P0ldy]

http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/

 

[gfngfgf]

http://www.geisswerks.com/drempels/

This thing had me mesmerized for the better part of a few months before the effect wore off.

 

[SeTeS]

ditto on the drempels thing. pretty cool toy.

 

[DongTran]

What about how MacOS does it? How images waver around and whatnot

 

[Yreka]

I have an app for OSX that lets you run your active screensaver as a desktop. I would love to find something like that for my PC also.

 

[TackleDummy]

Originally posted by: logic0010
im hoping to find a way to make the ever so pouplar fish tank screen savor
my desktop background with movement

as far as resources go i think i have it covered

My girlfriend would like to do the same thing. Anyone have a solution?

 

[xtknight]

This isn't too hard with the Windows API. If anyone's up to it, the functions are something like SetParent, GetDesktopWindow, and FindWindow (to find the screensaver window). All you really have to do is set the screensaver display's parent to the desktop and it should work.

 

[Infohawk]

I know there are tools that can create rippling effects. Most of them seem like ugly hacks to me though.

There was also a pay product that plays movies on your desktop (like a field with wind flowing through it) but now I can't find the site anymore.

 

[theAnimal]

Originally posted by: Infohawk
There was also a pay product that plays movies on your desktop (like a field with wind flowing through it) but now I can't find the site anymore.

The Core Media Player will let you play a movie on your desktop and it's free.

 

[TackleDummy]

Not ON the desktop, AS the desktop.

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: TackleDummy
Not ON the desktop, AS the desktop.

The one I was talking about was the wallpaper essentially (the desktop). Besides the fact that it cost money, it still played a long loop. Something about that bothers me. I'd want either random behavior, AI behavior or a live feed.

 

[TackleDummy]

Originally posted by: Infohawk

Originally posted by: TackleDummy
Not ON the desktop, AS the desktop.

The one I was talking about was the wallpaper essentially (the desktop). Besides the fact that it cost money, it still played a long loop. Something about that bothers me. I'd want either random behavior, AI behavior or a live feed.

Is this what you were talking about?
http://www.greenfoxsoft.com/