There is a trick to using GIFPaper: by default, you’ll lose your animated wallpaper each time you reboot your Mac. To fix this issue, add GIFPaper to your Mac’s startup records. This guarantees that each time you restart your Mac, GIFPaper runs consequently and restores your animated wallpaper to its legitimate spot. GIFPaper.GIF Backgrounds on Mac and iPhone What is this app? GIFPaper is a Script based app enabling users to set.GIF files as their background. Mac: Sick of using those boring, static images as your wallpaper. If you want to spice things up a bit, the GIFPaper app can set any GIF as a wallpaper. All you’ll need to do is download GIFPaper (Dropbox link), install the preference pane, and then head into System Settings. Password Corral For Mac Download more. In System Settings. A place to post great gif wallpapers for GIFPaper and GIFPaper8. GIFPaper is a jailbreak tweak for iOS where you can set gifs as your devices wallpaper instead of boring, still images.
You may have seen web pages with video backgrounds but did you know that it is also possible to use videos and animated GIF images as backgrounds for your Mac desktop. OS X natively supports only static wallpaper images but there’s a little Mac utility called GIFPaper that adds support for animated live backgrounds to your desktop.
Animated GIFs as Mac Background
It takes a few easy steps to inject some life in your Mac background.
Step 1. Download a GIF image. You can use Giphy for readymade GIFs, or create your own cinemagraphs with Photoshop or, if you are trying to use a video, convert to GIF using FFMpeg.
Step 2. Download the GIFPaper app from Dropbox (link found via Reddit) and extract the content to a local folder.
Step 3. Double-click the GIFPaperPrefs.prefPane file inside the extracted folder to install the preferences pane. Go to your Mac’s System Preferences and double-click GIFPaperPref to launch the actual app.
Step 4. Browse the computer, locate the GIF, set the Scaling to “Axes Independently” and the GIF will be set as the background of your Mac desktop. If you have a multiple virtual desktops, only the current screen will be changed.
You can place add GIFPaperAgent to your Mac login items to preserve your wallpaper preferences. Also, it might not be a good idea to use animated on older Macs since it does consume system resources.
I meant to do this post awhile ago, but forgot. This tweet of an animated wallpaper reminded me.
Credit: https://twitter.com/enaudiin/status/909339001940615168
Stunning isn’t it. You could download GifPaper and set a gif as your wallpaper, it adds a settings panel to your system settings and lets you choose a gif. Pretty sweet, but it’s horrible. After a few minutes your Mac will probably catch on fire. Just kidding, but it does each up your cpu quick, too quick to be worth it!
So here is another trick. MP4! Yes convert that gif to MP4 then use the app Uebersicht and my script to display the MP4.
Install Uebersicht.
Uebersicht is a program that allows you to put widgets on your Mac home screen. I’ve used it for awhile now and have it running on Sierra 10.12.1
Find a gif.
A great place to find an amazing gif is http://kirokaze.com/ remarkable work.
Gif Paper Mache
Convert the gif.
The site https://ezgif.com/gif-to-mp4 allows you to convert the gif to mp4.
Download my widget
Gifpaper Mac Sierra
Once converted download my script for Uebersicht http://junesiphone.com/UebersichtMP4Widget.zip
Final details
Open Uebersicht on your Mac, you will see an icon in the menu bar. Click it and choose Open Widgets Folder. Unzip my widget and place desktopmp4.widget in the uebersicht widgets folder. Open the desktopmp4.widget/mp4 and replace the walking.mp4 with the mp4 you created from your zip. That’s it!
Gifpaper Mac Big Sur
Let me know what you think and would you like more widgets for Uebersicht? Tweet Me!http://twitter.com/junesiphone