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By: Desktop backgrounds in window managers « urukrama’s weblog

Desktop backgrounds in window managers « urukrama’s weblog — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:32:13 +0000

[...] What about an animated wallpaper? If you have xscreensaver installed, you can force it to run on the root window (i.e. the desktop). For guidelines how to do this, have a look at K.Mandla’s post (also here). [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:41:11 +0000

@likeatim - yup, that’s what I was trying but it didn’t work at all. I tried popsquares and glmatrix but they just refused to paint on the root window. Oh well…

By: likeatim

likeatim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:51:55 +0000

in KDE one can do that with the KDE background.
right click on Desktop -> Desktop Settings -> Background -> Advanced
Then use “Use this program to draw background” and enter the command above.
It works partly - until the normal screen saver kicks in or you logged out or you went to standby - don’t know how to reactivate it again.
And you don’t see your desktop icons…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:57:24 +0000

Really? KDE must handle the desktop differently. But then again, I don’t even know if Gnome will do this. It might be a WM-only trick. I hadn’t thought about that. …

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:48:45 +0000

Nice! I tried to do this from within KDE but I failed miserably. Oh well.

By: Matt Neilson

Matt Neilson — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:38:57 +0000

Mmmmmm…..Groove Salad! Yum!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:56:05 +0000

Openbox only! Audacious and rxvt-unicode in the photo.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:42:25 +0000

Interesting, but… is this Gnome? KDE? XFCE? It looks a bit GNOMEy to me but I thought Arch was a KDE distro…