http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7832/
Or to use the webcam image as a wallpaper. (wallpaper will act as a mirror, or if you put your webcam on front of your windows you can have great live view )



[102 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #7832


]]> en-us Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:18:04 +0000 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:37:28 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7832/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:14:39 +0000 Actually, you can have just about any program run as your desktop background, if you are willing to give up having the file browser icons there

See this post on disabling the file browser icons
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=171244&postcount=3


Then, you can use mplayer to loop a video (or animated gif) in the "root window"

mplayer -nosound -loop 0 -fixed-vo -wid 0 YOUR_GIF_OR_VIDEO]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:18:48 +0000

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/howto-loop-movie-or-video-as-desktop.html

I wrote a little bash script that made things a bit easier; but if some kind soul could just write up a python-gui for it that would be Sweeet. Then we could talk about including it by default!
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Dudes, KDE/Blackbox/twm & Afterstep can support running executables or videos as backgrounds! How depressing is that?]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:13:24 +0000 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:05:13 +0000

Video, Picture, Webcam, More!]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:57:22 +0000 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:29:15 +0000
Go to youtube and watch the dreamscape videos (I run vista and it actually looks really cool).

So +1]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:06:10 +0000
ubuntu is meant as a linux distribution for humanity(this includes people using old computers). It is good to have eye candy and desktop effects to some extent,but after sometime these effects can be boring.And some of these effect the functionality of the computer. I do belive there are some things like scale plugin in compiz etc.. have really good functionality.But there are some features that exaggerate eye candy like paint fire.

Compiz itself consumes lot of energy on laptops,thereby reducing battery backup.And I think compiz need to be optimized to give good battery backup.Then only we can think of these effects

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:04:33 +0000
I tried it a few times but I always go back to using a static background. Your eyes will detract to the constantly moving background and you will have a harder time concentrating and thus be less productive.

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Right now I'm using my desktop to display my ~/, but I usually just keep it turned off. If I want to see my files, I'll open something via Places. Playing a video from, say, diatonis, as a desktop background, should be as easy as setting an image or a gradient.

Right click. Change Desktop background. Select a video. That's it.

+1 (only because it's all I have..)]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:38:35 +0000 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:13:27 +0000
http://us.blizzard.com/support/images/articles/en_us/Networking/linksys/ss1.jpg

I think it's not too distracting and somehow more comfortable for eyes than static picture.

I'd be cool to have some 3D theme wallpapers on Ubuntu, to have a green forest swaying in the wind or something like that.]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:37:28 +0000