Animated desktops

komorebi

Komorebi Linux https://github.com/iabem97/komorebi

New, some issues. Not multimonitor. Desktop icons dissapear

Processor use:

Memory use:

xwinwrap

Xwinwrap https://github.com/ujjwal96/xwinwrap

Some examples of use: https://shantanugoel.com/2008/09/03/shantz-xwinwrap/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4NWOKjPrjg (46 seconds in)

For Linux Mint first Turn off the background

xwinwrap -ni -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -un -o 0.7 -- mplayer -wid WID -quiet -nosound /dir/file.ext loop 0

Note, you may need to fiddle around with the opacity (-o) if you want to see the desktop icons. I found 0.7 a pretty good mix.

Bash scripts to automate random picking

randomly choose a screensaver: https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1949450.html

https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1378108.html

Not working properly quick attempt

#!/bin/bash
DIR="/home/razor/Dreams/"

ls $DIR | sort -R | tail -$N | while read file; do
#       echo $DIR/$file

        xwinwrap -ni -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -un -o 0.7 -- mplayer -wid WID -quiet -nosound "$DIR/$file"
done

GUIs

anibg https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1106945/

VDesk - Visual Desktop https://www.linux-apps.com/p/1110517

qwinwrap - https://www.linux-apps.com/content/show.php/qwinwrap+Animated+Desktop?content=170183

Convert dream files

How to convert your dreamscene .dream files for use in above: https://www.wincustomize.com/article/155903

C:\ProgramData\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData contains the files you need :)

in cmd run

for /r "C:\ProgramData\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData" %i in (*.*) do copy "%~fi" "c:\destination\directory\%~nxi" /y

Sort by type, delete everything that isn't a movie. Voila!