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This should be a simple task, but I can't figure out a way to do this!

Aaron Franke
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Although not specific to XFCE, Mplayer is able to play video, or animated gifs on the background, running the following on startup should result in the gif being rendered, on loop, in the background.

mplayer -loop 0 -fs -zoom location-of-animate-gif.gif -rootwin

pont
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  • X11 error: BadAccess during XSelectInput Call X11 error: The 'ButtonPressMask' mask of specified window was probably already used by another application (see man XSelectInput) X11 error: MPlayer discards mouse control (reconfiguring) – Aaron Franke Jun 23 '17 at 07:11
  • Oh right, what happens if you try something like xwinwrap (https://shantanugoel.com/2008/09/03/shantz-xwinwrap/) there seems to be videos of people successfully using that on XFCE. – pont Jun 23 '17 at 07:25
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    Or you might be able to disable the session-manager then run mplayer as root https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92504/what-bit-of-the-xfce-de-controls-the-wallpaper – pont Jun 23 '17 at 07:38
  • I've also seen xwinwrap and unsuccessfully tried it. It's just too outdated. The guide you linked, from 2008, even calls it old! If you have a more up to date guide maybe this would be an option. – Aaron Franke Jun 23 '17 at 07:40
  • The solution was kill `xfdesktop` and then run this command. Beautiful! Thanks! – Aaron Franke Jun 24 '17 at 16:38
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    Yea nice, glad you got it working! – pont Jun 25 '17 at 23:41