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Comment by tinus_hn | Hacker News Reader

Sorry, but a MacOS that doesn’t have animated wallpapers still can be said to ‘behave itself’.

I can't remember the last time I saw my desktop.

Sometimes I make a new virtual desktop and see it for a few seconds.

Yeah a number of these seem like just somewhat idiosyncratic preferences or note-to-self-how-to-do-X-thing, the title is a bit misleading.

Not wallpaper, exactly, but (unless this has changed recently), you can run the screensaver as your wallpaper.

  /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

I used to do this once in a while, back in PowerPC days. Twenty years ago, it was amusing.

I think Apple removed that