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Just a silly graphics hack of ever-morphing blobs (metaballs) on your desktop. The window shape is updated continuously to match the shape of the blobs.
It's not a very lightweight effect, and needing to read-back the rendered image from the GPU and set the window shape in real-time doesn't help, so it needs a pretty fast computer to run properly. Plus it's not optimized at all, being just a silly hack and all. Other than that, it requires OpenGL (obviously), and an X server with support for the Xshape extension.
You don't need a compositing manager, or anything fancy like that to run this.
Shapeblobs also runs on ms windows now.
Just type make to compile shapeblobs, and make install (as root) to install
system-wide (/usr/local by default). Feel free to just copy the binary anywhere
and run it from there if you don't wish to install it, or change the PREFIX
variable in the makefile to install to a different location.
You need MinGW on windows, or the MinGW cross-compiler on UNIX to build the
windows binary. Just type make -f Makefile.mingw and it should do the right
thing. If your MinGW cross-compiler binary is not named i686-w64-mingw32-gcc,
then also add CC=your-mingw-gcc-binary to the command line.
Author: John Tsiombikas nuclear@member.fsf.org Shapeblobs is free software. Feel free to use, modify, and/or redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3, or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. See COPYING for details.