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I recently looked into doing this for my Windows laptop, but found that it halved the battery life. Is this also a problem with running stuff like this on Macs

• hedgehog 8y ago
  Negligible energy consumption. I wrote a desktop timelapse wallpaper app for Mac that creates a below-the-desktop window containing a movie player and then plays the movie stretched over 24 hrs. Energy impact was small, something like 0.1 in Activity Monitor.
  • will_walker 8y ago
    Is this something you would care to share? This would be ideal for watching Wong Kar-wai films.
    • hedgehog 8y ago
      Sure, send me a mail at the address in my profile. I'll dig up the code tomorrow.
      • hedgehog 8y ago
        For posterity GitHub link is here: https://github.com/choongng/passage https://github.com/choongng/passage
• madeofpalk 8y ago
  Heh it's incredible hearing about someone _trying_ to do this one Windows (and Mac) - I have very vivid memories of Active Desktop on Windows 98 that let you set an HTML page as your 'wallpaper'/on your desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
  • khedoros1 8y ago
    I remember that some system crashes would cause it to disable itself, with a hyperlink to reenable it. I also remember being obsessed with converting movie clips into animated gifs, and setting those as my background.
  • aklemm 8y ago
    I remember it well.
• Sidnicious 8y ago
  If your app/web page isn’t doing work in the background and doesn’t receive mouse events, the energy impact should be close to nil — it should sit solidly at 0.0% CPU usage in Activity Monitor, else something isn’t right.