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Feature idea: Video Desktop

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ravalox

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Monday, September 20th 2004, 8:07pm

Feature idea: Video Desktop

What would it take to make video desktop happen in KDE? I mean, playing a video as your wallpaper, this is fairly trivial in windows, is there an architectual limitation in X-windows that prohibits this for now or is it something that would just take a little understanding of X.org?

m4ktub

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Tuesday, September 21st 2004, 11:54am

There is no limitation. It's just not that common.

Check http://www.kde-forum.org/viewtopic.php?t=3201

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Friday, September 24th 2004, 8:01pm

mplayer for example has a command line option -rootwin that will have it use the root window (desktop background) for video output

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