How to put an animation sprite on the desktop?

Question

I want a small running bicycle (maybe an animation GIF) on the desktop, to remind me focus on work and work hard, can I?

It can be embedded in a small window, but it's better to remove the surrounding window border.

It's even better if it supports GIF-89a animation, so I can customize it whatever I want.

green7 · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-13 07:54:55Z

First install shantz-xwinwrap from here, then install gifsicle from the software center.
Now create an empty file on the desktop, open it with gedit and then copy and paste the content of this in it.
Now save the file as gifbg , make it executable then run gksu nautilus and navigate to /usr/bin/ and paste the file there .
Now to use a .gif as a desktop background run gifbg path/to/gif
If you want it to be your wallpaper at every boot then add gifbg path/to/gif command to your startup applications .

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In the gifbg script, -w WID seems not work. And, I didn't see any difference running gifview alone, or running with xwinwrap. At last, running gifview -a bike.gif is just fine.

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