How to use animated gif as wallpaper

[dlpr]

ello, and hapy new year.

For my little daughter (my life.com), I want to use and animated gif I created as wallparer. Is it possible ? If yes, how ?

Thanks a lot.

[merlwiz79]

Download and install
removed/app/xwinwrap
apt install gifsicle
Open a text editor and paste this in it.

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#!/bin/sh
# Uses xwinwrap to display given animated .gif in the center of the screen

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
    echo 1>&2 Usage: $0 image.gif
    exit 1
fi

#get screen resolution
SCRH=`xrandr | awk '/current/ { print $8 }'`
SCRW=`xrandr | awk '/current/ { print $10 }'`
SCRW=${SCRW%\,}

#get gif resolution
IMGHW=`gifsicle --info $1 | awk '/logical/ { print $3 }'`
IMGH=${IMGHW%x*}
IMGW=${IMGHW#*x}

#calculate position
POSH=$((($SCRH/2)-($IMGH/2)))
POSW=$((($SCRW/2)-($IMGW/2)))

xwinwrap -g ${IMGHW}+${POSH}+${POSW} -ov -ni -s -nf -- gifview -w WID $1 -a

exit 0

Now save the file as gifbg.sh
Run this in terminal

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chmod +x gifbg.sh

Now run

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./gifbg.sh /path/to/animated.gif