{"id":12,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=9"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"animated-background-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Animated background images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was taking screen-shots of Chart for some quick background images, preparing my box for an upcoming demo, when I hit upon a neat way to impress your friends.<br \/>\nI spend a lot of time simply editing files and running Terminals in different workspaces, nothing really compute intensive. So, as a makeshift screen-saver, I run Chart full screen, full blast, 100% stars, in one workspace and switch to it whenever I leave the machine. Thanks to BeOS&#8217;s emphasis on responsiveness, I often forget that I left it running after I switch back, even though it&#8217;s taking up about 100% CPU. I love Chart, you see.<br \/>\nSo, as I was putting Chart-shots on the other workspaces, it hit me: since I don&#8217;t really mess with the icons on the desktop when Terminalling or StyledEditing, why not move a couple of these apps to the Chart workspace, push Chart to the back, and get the overall effect of an animated desktop image?<br \/>\nJust eye-candy, but boy is it fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was taking screen-shots of Chart for some quick background images, preparing my box for an upcoming demo, when I hit upon a neat way to impress your friends. I spend a lot of time simply editing files and running Terminals in different workspaces, nothing really compute intensive. So, as a makeshift screen-saver, I run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}