Gifpaper Mac Utility Called

OS X natively supports only static wallpaper images but theres a little Mac utility called GIFPaper that adds support for animated live backgrounds to your desktop.

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.

Go to your Macs System Preferences and double-click GIFPaperPref to launch the actual app.

If you have a multiple virtual desktops, only the current screen will be changed.

Also, it might not be a good idea to use animated on older Macs since it does consume system resources.

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Because of all that, using GifPaper is likely better used exclusively by more advanced Mac users, as its totally unsupported by the developer (or anyone else).

If you arent comfortable with any of that, dont use the GifPaper app for now.

If you dont mind those caveats, heres how you can use GIFPaper to set an animated GIF as the desktop picture on a Mac.

Of course if you have Gif Brewery than you can use other masterful animated GIF creations of your own doing as well, otherwise a quick Google Image search for animated gif (item) or visit to a site like Giphy should find you something to meet your GIF needs.

Generally speaking it is unwise to download and use apps or files from random web links from an unidentified developer, but this app was found by LifeHacker and it works as advertised (the creepy blinking eyes gif via 2001 (the movie) shown on page is from Lifehacker too).

If you were hoping to get a look at the source, get support for the app, or ask questions specifically about the project or how it works, youll have to reach out to the creator directly via the readme file attached to the download, for now anyway.

Open Activity Monitor with your search bar, find Gifpaper Agent then quit it from there.

Its your typical OS eye candy with beauty at the expense of performance.

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