Let your windows flutter around your screen

Fenêtres volantes is a handy, free software only available for Mac, being part of the category Customize your Mac with subcategory Screen Savers.

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Since we added this software to our catalog in 2007, it has obtained 13,988 downloads, and last week it achieved 3 downloads.

About the download, Fenêtres volantes is a pretty light program that does not require as much storage space than most software in the category Customize your Mac. It’s a software very heavily used in some countries such as Japan, United States, and Mexico.

It’s available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and prior versions, and you can download it in English. Its current version is 1.1 and it has been updated on 4/03/2007.

Addition of an option “Realistic reflections” in the preferences. But it could slow down Fenêtres Volantes on old Mac.Correction of the bug of doubling of the windows.Correction memory leak in the configuration window.Improvement of futur compatibility with MacOSX 10.5.Correction of the bug of gray screen when animated background.Modification of the method of display of the credits.Suppression of the monitoring of certain events likely to cause the premature end of the screen saver.Addition of a log on the event causing the end of the screen saver.Test of the combination of keys MAJ+CTRL+COMMAND when click on button OK of the preferences, to activate or not the debug mode.Certain configurations with multiple screens prevent Fenêtres Volantes to function properly (darken screen) in “on all joined screens” display mode. You can, however, safely try to select this mode in screen save’s options.There is no anti-aliasing: this limitation comes from QuartzComposer. The correction of this limitation depends now only on APPLE.

Changes

• Addition of an option “Realistic reflections” in the preferences. But it could slow down Fenêtres Volantes on old Mac.Correction of the bug of doubling of the windows.Correction memory leak in the configuration window.Improvement of futur compatibility with MacOSX 10.5.Correction of the bug of gray screen when animated background.Modification of the method of display of the credits.Suppression of the monitoring of certain events likely to cause the premature end of the screen saver.Addition of a log on the event causing the end of the screen saver.Test of the combination of keys MAJ+CTRL+COMMAND when click on button OK of the preferences, to activate or not the debug mode.Certain configurations with multiple screens prevent Fenêtres Volantes to function properly (darken screen) in “on all joined screens” display mode. You can, however, safely try to select this mode in screen save’s options.There is no anti-aliasing: this limitation comes from QuartzComposer. The correction of this limitation depends now only on APPLE.

If you’re not making any use of your screen let the windows fly around it in this amusing and highly original screen saver. Fenêtres Volantes, once installed and set as your default screen saver, will be launched automatically every time your screen goes idle.