Free Mac OS X Screensaver sets your windows flying

Monday, July 31, 2006 · 9:01 am · 22 Comments

With free Mac OS X screensaver Fenêtres Volantes (Flying windows) your windows take off flying and fluttering in the void. On a mouse move, the windows immediately come back and stuck to their original position.

Fenêtres Volantes allows users to set the speed, the number of windows to take in account, as well as multiscreen behavior.

System requirements:
MacOS X 10.4.6 Tiger or above
G4, G5, Intel – 1GHz or above

More info and download link for the free beta of Fenêtres Volantes here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "The Other Steve" who found the link via Digg for the heads up.]

Categories: MacDailyNews, News

22 Comments

jay

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 9:10 am · Reply

I think it’s the other Windows that’s fluttering in the void.

Turd Ferguson

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 9:44 am · Reply

I’m waiting for the chairs flying from the hands of MonkeyBoy screensaver…

Allen

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 9:59 am · Reply

Doesn’t work for me, the screen goes white… that’s it.

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:08 am · Reply

This appears to be beta software, so beware. I tried it and it doesn’t work, and it messed up Exposé.

odd rock

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:30 am · Reply

Sweeeeeeeet “white screen” screen saver.

Works great with a single monitor set up, plugged into another monitor for dual screen – all goes to hell.

Great beta – hopefully will get dual screen issues worked out.

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:36 am · Reply

It works for me… and it looks awsome. check out the digg comment thread on this, most people are super impressed. it is beta but…. sorry you can’t get it to work.

Schmutz!

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:49 am · Reply

Thanks for the heads up, I almost downloaded it. Will try later once they resolve the dual monitor issue.

alan smalan

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:52 am · Reply

heard about it last night on digg and installed it —- very, very cool. It was buggy on my dual displays at first too but it looks awesome just on my powerbook display.

goo boy

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:59 am · Reply

It works (albeit slowly) on my iBook G3 700mHz, the cutoff point isn’t G4.

Anyway, I believe it sets Exposé’s F9/All Windows to Shift F9, temporarily. Maybe that’s why the above poster said it broke it.

LordRobin

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 12:49 pm · Reply

I’m imagining someone browsing porn, who quickly pops another application on top of the naughty pictures when his wife walks in the room to argue with him about something. I hope he doesn’t forget to tap the keyboard occassionally!

Cubert

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 12:50 pm · Reply

Holy crap! Something useful out of France?!

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 2:34 pm · Reply

I have a 23″ and a 20″ hooked up….works well

MacAbuser

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 2:48 pm · Reply

It works lovely on my dual 2ghz G5………I like the way the image of the window….. is reversed when it turns around!………reminds me of a vista demo I saw recently……..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqyQotPhFY&search=vista internal

What the practicality of this 3D effect is I don’t know…….. no wonder Vista is gonna need so much f@cking memory!!!!

The Other Steve

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 3:10 pm · Reply

Phill Ryu put out a nice Blog that listed his top ten screen savers with explanations & screen clips and links that listed this screen saver as #1.
He list some very cool screen savers I haven’t seen before. He also list some runners up.

http://phillryu.com/2006/07/30/the-top-ten-os-x-screensavers/

The only one I disagree with is #9. I don’t care if it looks like Homer, it was boring.

Me again

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 7:20 pm · Reply

For those of you who have it working, what is your setup? Intel, PPC, OS?

For me it wouldn’t run on my 2 GHZ MacBook 10.4.7.

The Other Steve

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 8:31 pm · Reply

PowerBook G4 1.25 GHz FW800 15 inch 1 gig ram

The Other Steve

Monday, July 31, 2006 - 8:32 pm · Reply

OS X 10.4.7