About foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif

This is just a loop script that sets a gif as a wallpaper. Supports transparency.

More gif here

• https://imgur.com/a/F6w9Vr4
• https://imgur.com/a/XxraHzY
• https://imgur.com/a/I8yKrl5

Requirements:

• feh or xload or xwallpaper
• md5sum
• imagemagick
• for auto speed calculation, bc package is needed

To run it

Download back4.sh and a gif. For ubuntu/xfce set prog=$select4 in back4.sh , You can set stretched style in desktop panel.

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thomas10-10/foo-Wallpaper-Feh-Gif/master/install.sh | bash
back4.sh 0.010 gif/pixel.gif &
#back4 speed pathToGif &

auto speed calculation

set 'auto' speed option for automatically calculate speed (30 frames per second)

back4.sh auto gif/pixel.gif &

select between feh,xwallpaper,xload,ubuntu-xfce

edit back4.sh, set prog=$select2 for xwallpaper, or select4 for ubuntu-xfce

autostart with i3, in i3 config :

exec_always --no-startup-id killall back4.sh 
exec_always --no-startup-id $HOME/back4.sh 0.03 Downloads/beautycity.gif

To stop it

killall back4.sh

Alternatively

You can add the speed as a suffix to your desired gif.

ls gif/pixel.gif-0.010
back4.sh gif/pixel.gif-0.010 &

To clean cache

rm -rf /tmp/back4

If you have big gif , you must change config in ImageMagick policy example:

sudo sed -i s'@<policy domain="resource" name="memory" value=".*"/>@<policy domain="resource" name="memory" value="2GiB"/>@'g /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml