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Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

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Post by irusensei »

maybelsyrup wrote: post #11

This is exactly the sort of fun, random, small project that reminds me of the more anarchic and playful older days of computing and the web. Those days are gone and not coming back, but their spirit lives on in things like this. It’s not some earth shattering YCombinator thing, it’s not a SaaS, it’s not (at least to my eye) about money — it’s a neat thing to do with a piece of screen real estate we all look at a mill…

Not so early internet but what happened to over the top Compiz 3D cube desktops and wobbly windows that catch on fire when closed?

Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

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Post by razemio »

irusensei wrote: post #32
maybelsyrup wrote: post #11

This is exactly the sort of fun, random, small project that reminds me of the more anarchic and playful older days of computing and the web. Those days are gone and not coming back, but their spirit lives on in things like this. It’s not some earth shattering YCombinator thing, it’s not a SaaS, it’s not (at least to my eye) about money — it’s a neat thing to do with a piece of screen real estate we all look at a mill…

Not so early internet but what happened to over the top Compiz 3D cube desktops and wobbly windows that catch on fire when closed?

Some of it is still there.

3D Cube: https://github.com/Schneegans/Desktop-Cube

Burning Windows: https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

#34

Post by memco »

Could something like this be built for macOS too? I remember there used to be a Quartz plugin you could use to have a screensaver as a background so you could get animated backgrounds, but something like this would be fun to have. The issue with the screensaver as a desktop background if I recall was rapid battery drain: what kind of resources are required to use this one?

Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

#35

Post by Czikenix »

zorr wrote: post #31

This looks cool! Congrats on releasing. The Linux installation steps look a bit funky to me: Downloading a zip file from the internet and unzipping directly to "/". It's not very different from piping curl output to bash.

Thanks! I think most Linux users probably build it using make, although I decided to add a compiled zip anyway

Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

#36

Post by Czikenix »

behnamoh wrote: post #4

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If You don't like the idea of my project, You can just ignore it. I spent my free time to create this and I'm happy, that someone likes it. I train my programming skill and learn new thing by doing projects like this. I would never learn programming if I didn't play with it.

Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

#37

Post by Czikenix »

memco wrote: post #34

Could something like this be built for macOS too? I remember there used to be a Quartz plugin you could use to have a screensaver as a background so you could get animated backgrounds, but something like this would be fun to have. The issue with the screensaver as a desktop background if I recall was rapid battery drain: what kind of resources are required to use this one?

I'm sure it can be done and I'm going to do some research about it in the near future. I would like to make it available on macOS too

Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

#39

Post by ratmice »

Czikenix wrote: post #37
memco wrote: post #34

Could something like this be built for macOS too? I remember there used to be a Quartz plugin you could use to have a screensaver as a background so you could get animated backgrounds, but something like this would be fun to have. The issue with the screensaver as a desktop background if I recall was rapid battery drain: what kind of resources are required to use this one?

I'm sure it can be done and I'm going to do some research about it in the near future. I would like to make it available on macOS too

presumably https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/cgwin...

Re: Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

#40

Post by rzzzt »

albert_e wrote: post #12
jhallenworld wrote: post #7

You need to use the Wii remote in reverse so you can make a fake window. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw (can't believe this was 15 years ago now..)

This is brilliant! Why haven't we seen this idea developed further into consumer devices by now

Without any accompanying pair of glasses the parallax effect is only convincing for a single viewer.
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