<!–texy–>no need to do all this stuff…. and kill the nautilus and desktop icons..

just copy paste the following code…

sudo apt-get install xwinwrap

then

xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf — /usr/lib/xscreenver/glmatrix -root -window-id WID &

and make ur wallpaper black for perfect effects…
if not working then pls tell at phanuel3@gmail.com

<!–texy–>hey guys use this if your using fedora 12

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

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

> 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.

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.

To unbreak this:

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

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

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…

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

If you really need icons then try <a href="http://idesk.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">iDesk</a>

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