1. The first step we need to take is turn off Nautilus which draws the current desktop and icons in Gnome:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

2. Next we need to turn up xscreensaver and its ‘glmatrix’ screensaver (nice Matrix movie like screensaver) in the root window (in the desktop):

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root

3. Congratulations! That’s all

4. Optional: If you would like to start the animation whenever you log in, then create a file “~/.config/autostart/glmatrix.desktop” with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=No name
Name[en_IN]=Desktop matrix
Exec=/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

After you would like to get back to your previous desktop, just insert the following on the command line (ElecBoy thanks for that):

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

When all steps are successfully done we should expect something like this:

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Great resource for such stuff is a Free Software Sticker Book which is a PDF e-book holding all the great free software stickers like Firefox, Gimp, Blender, amaroK, Audacity and also stickers of many of popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Fedora etc. There are a plenty of icons which are ready to print and use because almost every page of the book contains 8×8 stickers which is 64 stickers per page.

Book is licensed under MIT License which gives you the following permissions:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
book and associated files, to deal in the book without restriction, including without
limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the book, and to permit persons to whom the book is furnished
to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or different versions of the book and inside images.

Also if you are a graphic designer and would like to add more free stickers you could participate in that project and send your stickers to stickers@pikao.org.

I think this book is a great project and also very easy way to print out your own stickers of your favourite software.

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