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Questions tagged [animation]

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webp animation to gif animation (cli)

I was surprised today to find apparently how difficult it is to go from a webp animation to gif animation. My GIMP 2.8.22 and ImageMagick 7.0.7-21 on linux 4.14.13-1-ARCH don't seem to support the format, and the only tool available in repos seem to…
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Workspace sliding animation in i3

How could I have a workspace sliding animation in i3 on ArchLinux ? I don't want to use a full DE, I'm right now using compton as a compositor but it only offers fade in/out when switching workspaces, I can't make it perform a sliding animation…
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Remove nth frames of a gif (remove a frame every n frames)

I've recorded a .gif of the screen with ffmpeg. I've used gifsicle and imagemagick to compress it a bit, but it's still to big. My intent is making it small by removing, say, a frame every 2 frames, so that the total count of frames will be…
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Program for taking snap-shots of movie?

Are there any programs that would let me specify parts of a video-file (avi, mpeg, mp4, ...) and take "snap-shots" every so-and-so second/minute, and store it as a series of image-files (eg. jpeg)? For example select part of a movie between 0h45m…
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Playing pdf with embedded animations

I have been trying to find a PDF viewer in Linux with the ability to play embedded animations (with the video data saved into the PDF). I have read tens of forum questions and tried many different viewers (evince, okular, acroread, foxit...) but…
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How to do handwriting animation in LibreOffice Impress presentations?

I've got some slides with handwriting-style fonts on them. Is there a way to do a "handwriting" animation on them? To make it seem like the text is being written, letter by letter? I've figured out some effects that sort of fade in from the left,…
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How to disable all animations?

I'm using LXDE with Openbox.I hate that animations slow down work. How to disable all animations completely?
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record image effects as animations

I've done only some very basic stuff with ImageMagick (mainly resizing, also messing with color filters a bit). Imagemagick has a simple example for overlaying images: convert anthony_1.jpg anthony_2.jpg -average anthony_ghosts.jpg But I have no…
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Create animated WebP file from WebP files?

I have converted a sequence of images to WebP, and I want to compile them into an animation. I downloaded libwebp, but it's a tar.gz archive and I don't know how to install those. Is there another way to create an animated WebP file some other way?
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3D drawing program to pose human figures (like Windows Poser)

Are there any good Linux-alternatives to the Windows-program Poser - a program that allows you to manipulate human-figures (dressed in skins) in a humanly way (ie. with the restriction a human body impose on body-movement)?
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What is the name of this interactive animated cat on kde desktop?

I've recently found a computer on which there was an animated cat sitting on the system tray. He followed clicks, and looked like this: I tried to find what it's called by running ps -fe > cat.txt, but after looking through the output and googling…
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Debian Grub - display a splash image/animation for the entire course of the boot (similar to KUbuntu)?

The issue - I am looking into displaying a splash image as soon as I start my computer instead of a blinking cursor. For instance KUbuntu does this, it displays an animation during the whole boot instead of blinking cursor/dmesg output. What I've…
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Change Gnome 3 wallpaper without animation or flicker

Approx 10 years ago I wrote a small program to give me a simple "animated wallpaper", which worked well on whichever versions of Fedora and Gnome were current at the time (I believe it was Gnome 2). Recently I came across it again in my archives and…
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How to open a gif without loop repetition with oeg

I use to open .gif file with eog -f myfile.gif The gif animation is however running in loop. What I want is to display the animation once and then quit. How to avoid this? Please also help in case you would have any better utility to open .gif,
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XFCE - Autohide Animations

I am running Ubuntu with Unity. I also have an xfce panel installed on top of it. I have set it to autohide, but when it does it is blinks in/out of existence. I have tried setting an animation for the window class in compiz, with no luck. How can I…
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