Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Tweak your Windows animations with Lebendig
by Brad Linder May 18th 2008
Lebendig is a free Windows utility that adds a bit of eye candy to your window transitions. When you launch or close a window you can have it fade in or out, scroll down from the top of the screen, up from the bottom, or move from left to right or vice versa. Overall there are about 15 transitions to choose from, although to be honest, some of them looked pretty much identical to us.
You can adjust just how windows look when they launch, or when they close or specify which types of windows you'd like to be affected. For example, if you want program windows to use the default Windows animations while Explorer windows fade in and out, you can do that.
Lebendig comes from the developer of DExposE2, an Exposé clone for Windows. And while Lebendig certainly isn't the only tool that adds a bit of eye candy to Windows XP, it's worth checking out for its low memory footprint. It tends to use 8MB of RAM or less.
[via Lifehacker]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
LisKiller said 2:45PM on 5-18-2008
Congratulation Lord Devrexster! :D
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Molly said 2:48PM on 5-18-2008
it's actually 'Lebendig'. it is German and best translated with vivid.
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Brad Linder said 2:49PM on 5-18-2008
Whoops! Thanks for catching that. The article has been updated.
hazard said 8:08AM on 5-19-2008
nice app but the AnimateWindow function has been there since Win98 and consequently these animations look pretty tired .. give me window animations like you have on Leopard and then I'll sit up and take notice - though to be fair you could only do this on Vista unless you replace the shell on WinXP.
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Superevil said 5:26PM on 5-19-2008
Compiz it's not.
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Thomas.Dahl said 3:27AM on 5-20-2008
Looks very cool.. but how much does it slow down your computer? When using cheaper slower lap-tops I am always afraid that all these things simply become irritating after a while as everything takes longer to achieve. Has anyone tried this? -Thomas
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