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I wondered how I could create an animated desktop. Like the active desktop in windows.

I found a thread (that is closed) that says to do
kstart --type Desktop --window mplayer mplayer -nosound -fs movie.avi

But it just opens a window with the movie.
I also tried:
kstart --type Desktop --onbottom --window mplayer mplayer -nosound -fs movie.avi
But it doesn't change a lot. It plays the movie in front of everything else and I can't get it to the background.

What should I do?

I discovered that I could use "-fstype layer=15" for mplayer so it draws on the background.

I also found that you should be able to draw to the desktop background. (the root window) if you use "-rootwin" for mplayer. But that just doesn't draw anything at all.
What could be the problem here?

With the first option you draw it in the background, but it isn't handled as if it is the background. It is just a program. So you can't do the things by clicking on it that you could do if it was the background. Are there ways to make the background?

Thanks