Tips&Tricks cool background

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frew

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Post Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 8:12 am Post subject: cool background

trick

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I'm not sure what all window managers this works in but i know it works in e16 and i think gnome. should work in others too.

 

xlock -mode <some mode you like ie scooter> -inroot

 

so like:

xlock -mode scooter -inroot

 

sweeeeeet.

 

oh and its not very nice to low end video cards so you know....use with caution.

 

 

Omar Serenity

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Post Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 12:24 am Post subject:

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Could you give a newbie-ized description of what this does? Like what the different modes do and what they would be called? And what does this trick do and what file do you put the command in, or do you just type it in a console and it's a one-time thing?

 

Sorry for the silly questions. Very Happy

 

 

frew

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Location: Mississippi

Post Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 2:22 am Post subject:

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well ok, the -mode says what screensaver you are going to use, the -inroot makes it your background. type it in a console to test it out and you could prolly put it in your .xinit file to have it on every start of x.

 

 

 

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