Developer website: Julien Couthouis
CoolBackground allows you to use the screen saver selected in your preferences as a desktop picture. CoolBackground runs only on OS X 10.2 with Quartz Extreme. It is processor intensive, it is advised to use this application only with high-powered machines. Want to see CoolBackground in action? Download this QT video (630KB).
What's New
Version 2.5:
- 10.4 Tiger support. No longer 10.3 compatible
- Exposé and Dashboard compatible
- KNOW BUG: with some configurations animated desktop will stop on real screen saver launch
- source code is available so if you might help me to fix that...
Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- Rosetta (in order to run on Intel Macs)