Comments on: A clearlooks popsquares desktop

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:40:09 +0000

Good question. To be honest, I don’t think I ever used them in conjunction, but my experience with xcompmgr and xscreensaver against the root window suggests it might not be something they’re prepared for. In any case, if you get it working, let me know.

By: Narical

Narical — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:28:34 +0000

I’ve tried to use this method with cairo-compmgr, but it isn’t working. When composite is on, cairo-compmgr shows solid filled screen, i don’t know if it’s another, non-root window, or it’s some problem with sharing gl subsytem or something else

By: Sunnan

Sunnan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:50:13 +0000

It’s because the desktop enviroments paint over the root window with their file managers.

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.