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GIF support does not include animated GIFS?

Asked by Amndeep Singh Mann

I wanted to have an animated GIF as my background, but when I set it to be my background it just displays the first frame of the GIF. Is there a way to have an animated GIF as my background? Or by GIF support do you mean non-animated GIFs? I have the image display set to Tile if that is relevant.

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Alex Solanos (hakermania) said : 		#1

Unfortunately the GNOME desktop doesn't support animation. If an animated GIF is passed to it, then, by default, it displays only the 1st frame of it.

This is not a feature missing from Wallch, but from the GNOME desktop!

I don't know a workaround !

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Amndeep Singh Mann (amndeep-vass) said : 		#2

Thanks for explaining. I'll mark this as solved.

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jimwg (jimwg) said : 		#3

Alexsol:

Can a clue of how to do anime GIFs be in how Gnome image viewer and some other simple viewers runs them?

Keep up the great work!

Jim in NYC

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jimwg (jimwg) said : 		#4

Alexsol:

Can a clue of how to do anime GIFs be in how Gnome image viewer and some other simple viewers runs them?

Keep up the great work!

Jim in NYC

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Alex Solanos (hakermania) said : 		#5

We know how they make them work: They read the GIF image frame by frame and then they display each of them, making you believe that there is motion.

Something like this can be done by Wallch (reading a GIF frame by frame and sending every frame to the desktop) but it would be very resource consuming, considering that there will be a fade animation on every of the frames. It will be unbearable to your PC.