Comments on: Screensaver as a Desktop Wallpaper

By: loco

loco — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:07:27 +0000

on my old Windows XP System the freeware XPScene does the trick. It runs original DreamScene videos as looped wallpapers on XP.

By: Stefan May

Stefan May — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:47:51 +0000

> killall -9 nautilus
> killall -9 glmatrix

“killall -9″ is like shooting the process in his neck. You should always tell him to die with a simple “killall”, or explicitly with “killall -15″. Nautilus and glmatrix will kindly commit suicide.

cu, Stefan.

By: Joshua Welch

Joshua Welch — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:21:36 +0000

Actually I just created two scripts to do it for me:
matrixstart:
#!/bin/sh
gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root
exit 0

matrixstop:
#!/bin/sh
killall -9 nautilus
killall -9 glmatrix
gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true && nautilus
exit 0

There, it can now get no easier.

By: Joshua Welch

Joshua Welch — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:10:57 +0000

To unbreak this:

killall -9 nautilus
then
gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true && nautilus

By: chrstndsgnr

chrstndsgnr — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:30:58 +0000

There was a way to do this with a WinAmp plug-in.

First, set your background to None.
Open winamp, and goto the vis plugins.
Start AVS, double click the vis window, then settings -> display.
Check the box that says Overlay and Set Desktop to Color,
then you should be good to go

your background now moves to your music, or you could just set a different preset that doesn’t use a whole lot of music and that should work as well. BTW I’m using winamp v2.91, not sure how well it works in winamp v5.xx

By: Loki D. Trixtergod

Loki D. Trixtergod — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:17:23 +0000

WinXP/2k, 98, ME…. anything you can do as a web page can be a background… including an Animated FLASH Matrix movie…. About 6 years ago I told people how to create an animated desktop using flash, simple HTML embedding and the standard Windows Desktop properties…

I’ve since stopped playing with flash and don’t host any animate wallpapers, but I can give you a couple of hints on how to do it.

1. Create (or acquire) a nice flash animation that you like.
2. Embed it in a simple web page without constraining it to any size.
3. If you have a server go ahead and host it yourself and you can pull it down anywhere.
4. Right click the desktop, hit properties, go to the Desktop Tab and click “Customize Desktop”. Hit the Web tab and point it at your flash page…
5. Hit OK, OK and then yell at everyone to come see how cool you are…

You will have some issues with a blank bar on the left (color match it to your background)… cool things for animation geeks… make icons that run away and explode…

By: HeinerVG

HeinerVG — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:23:58 +0000

Add compiz fusion and you get the best desktop man ever created

By: idioto

idioto — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:04:53 +0000

If you really need icons then try iDesk

But if you were using a nice WM like fluxbox you wouldnt need icons. lol.

By: ZASHBOT

ZASHBOT — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:43:16 +0000

OMG OMG I FIGURED OUT HOW TO HAVE YOUR ICONS BACK!!!!!!!!!
when that window comes up when after running
gconftool-2 -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -t bool true && nautilus
you navigate to the desktop folder and drag all the icons into the terminal window and then close the other window that came up
hope this works for everyone else!!!

By: Cybersaicho

Cybersaicho — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:43:56 +0000

im using feisty whth beryl active and i have tried this and my icons were gone to but u can get them back whith the comand line given by the autor just dont use sudo whit it try simpli the comand line as it is and whit double dashes before “type” and “set”

$ gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true && nautilus

double dash ( – - ) before “type” and “set”
hope this can help cherrs