xwinwrap for your animation background

Download xwinwrap from this site http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/09/03/shantz-xwinwrap.html, then execute it depend on your architecture (x86 or x64). and then

1. Open a terminal window (Applications>Accessories>Terminal).
2. Optional: Install mplayer for video support:

sudo apt-get install mplayer

3. Install SVN:

sudo apt-get install subversion

4. Run the following command to download the code:

svn checkout http://gwinwrap.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ gwinwrap-read-only

5. 'cd' (change directories) to the directory you just downloaded:

cd $HOME/gwinwrap-read-only

6. Make gwinwrap executable:

chmod a+x gwinwrap.py

7. And run the application:

./gwinwrap.py

If this seems complex, it is because this is a new application and is not stable enough to be run outside of a terminal (in my opinion). It is of course possible (once making the gwinwrap.py file executable) to double-click gwinwrap.py to launch gwinwrap, but you may want to see the terminal output.

A setup.py script is planned to make installation simpler.

Easily Updating

If updates are made to the code, you can "cd" to the gwinwrap-read-only directory:

cd $HOME/gwinwrap-read-only

then run

svn up

and your code will update the the latest and greatest (but not necessarily the most bug-free) version!