Tips&Tricks Animated backgrounds

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Czaxx

Newbie

Joined: 02 May 2002

Posts: 12

Location: Hobart, Australia

 

Post Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 9:33 am Post subject: Animated backgrounds

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I stumbled across this cool tip over at http://www.linux.com to enable animated desktop backgrounds. I've added this

 

Code:

xlock -inroot -mode random &



 

 

to my

 

Code:

 /usr/X11R6/bin/startfluxbox



 

 

I'm sure it can be applied to other WM's. It eats up cputime and memory but it looks cool Smile

 

Unfortunately, I get an "X" shaped cursor - does anyone know how to fix this? It's not really bothering me all that much to be bothered searching for a solution but if anyone knows offhand how to fix it, I'd be grateful.

 

Cheers,

 

Czaxx

 

 

bradenm

Frequent user

Joined: 01 May 2002

Posts: 69

Location: Kelowna, BC, Canada

Post Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 2:25 pm Post subject: How to do that

with xscreensaver

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Here how to use any screensaver as the background:

 

1) If you use KDE, open K Control > Look n Feel > Desktop, and enable "Support Programs in Desktop Window"

2) Install the package(s) "xscreensaver(-gl)"

3) Run "/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/name -root &"

 

 

 

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