Made my personal site into a desktop environment

Re:Made my personal site into a desktop environment by gambiting on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:59AM (#25244642)

Unrelated question - is there any way to have such a background in windows? It's shocking to me that phones have had great animated background for years, but on Windows there doesn't seem to be any way to do it, the last attempt I can think of was the feature in Windows Vista Ultimate, where you could set an .mp4 file as background.

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Re:Made my personal site into a desktop environment by aksss on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:18AM (#25246038)

Well, Windows used to have “Active Desktop” in what, Win95? You could pin animations and such to your desktop but that never really survived past that version. It wasn’t part of OS but an add-on that was somehow part of IE 4.0. Plenty to third-party programs that do similar I think.

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Re:Made my personal site into a desktop environment by gambiting on Sunday November 29, 2020 @12:23PM (#25246488)

Yeah, but I mean specifically like the background on that website - a gpu-accelerated wave animation of polygons. I could do that on my Android phone for years, but it looks like most windows apps for animated background simply play an mp4 file, which is not ideal.

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Re:Made my personal site into a desktop environment by avibhu on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:44AM (#25244841)

You should be able to do that with Wallpaper Engine[0], though it is paid, and from what I remember, it used to be fairly resource intensive. Hopefully that has changed now.

[0] https://www.wallpaperengine.io/

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Re:Made my personal site into a desktop environment by pbronez on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:02AM (#25244905)

> though it is paid

It costs $4

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Re:Made my personal site into a desktop environment by noxer on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:24PM (#25246869)

You can do that with Rainmeter

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