Elive E27 Animated Background

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No, not at all, I didn't know, it's very interesting, I'll try. For the distortion of square screens, I can't do anything, since we use the basic dimensions of the wallpaper. Well, the square screen I had was for my Amiga 500. :slight_smile:

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yeah but the boot (plymouth) is an entirely different technology than EDC, if you know how to modify it in order to keep the aspect could be nice, I didn't spent more time on that theme:

sudo scite /usr/share/plymouth/themes/elive-retrowave/elive-retrowave.script

yes you can keep the aspect on it, try this setting for the BG:

aspect: 1.0 1.0;
aspect_preference: NONE;

or, also try to add this line after group:

      data { item: "style" "0"; }

try it also setting it to 4

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I'll try
Animated background shared: retrowave-BG - pling.com
If it works, I will update the download.

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Better use a git repo :happy:

Remember: we have 2 EDC grapihcal editors: "enventor" and "eflete", they may have bugs but can be useful to play with them

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In order to free up resources, you can make the animation to only happen when the mouse-in event (hovering the logo), run for 1 minute and then stop until the next mouse-in... but you will probably need to set an embryo (script) state to not trigger "from zero" the animation everytime the mouse moves on it

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I came across this at Plymouth | Not a Number
It scales a flower image to the height or width (which will cut parts of the image) of the screen while keeping the aspect ratio:

flower_image = Image("flower.png");

screen_ratio = Window.GetHeight() / Window.GetWidth();
flower_image_ratio = flower_image.GetHeight() / flower_image.GetWidth();

if (screen_ratio > flower_image_ratio)
  {  # Screen ratio is taller than image ratio, we will match the screen height
     scale_factor =  Window.GetHeight() / flower_image.GetHeight();
  }
else
  {  # Screen ratio is wider than image ratio, we will match the screen width
     scale_factor =  Window.GetWidth() / flower_image.GetWidth();
  }

scaled_flower_image = flower_image.Scale(flower_image.GetWidth()  * scale_factor,
                                         flower_image.GetHeight() * scale_factor);
flower_sprite = Sprite(scaled_flower_image); # Create the a sprite using the scaled image

flower_sprite.SetX(Window.GetWidth()  / 2 - scaled_flower_image.GetWidth () / 2); # Place in the centre
flower_sprite.SetY(Window.GetHeight() / 2 - scaled_flower_image.GetHeight() / 2);
flower_sprite.SetZ(-10000); # Place right at the back

My current machine (yet another X1 :w00t: ) I'm typing on only has 'elive-vortex-glow'.
It's getting late here but I'll have a go tomorrow at the 'elive-retrowave.script'
It seems simple enough.:innocent:

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To be fair, most screens have a similar aspect ratio these days it's only very old ones that have i.e a 4:3 ratio so I don't think it will really bother @triki1 's background.

For plymouth it could be a point considering Elive prides itself for being good for older hardware.
This "cutting" off the edges is a thing to be reckoned with when making a background image choice. :thinking: