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Xiè Jìléi
Asked: 2011-05-27 17:05:05 +0800 CST

How to put an animation sprite on the desktop?

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I want a small running bicycle (maybe an animation GIF) on the desktop, to remind me focus on work and work hard, can I?

It can be embedded in a small window, but it's better to remove the surrounding window border.

It's even better if it supports GIF-89a animation, so I can customize it whatever I want.

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    • First install shantz-xwinwrap from here, then install gifsicle from the software center.

    • Now create an empty file on the desktop, open it with gedit and then copy and paste the content of this in it.

    • Now save the file as gifbg , make it executable then run gksu nautilus and navigate to /usr/bin/ and paste the file there .

    • Now to use a .gif as a desktop background run gifbg path/to/gif

    • If you want it to be your wallpaper at every boot then add gifbg path/to/gif command to your startup applications .

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