Dynamic Desktop (screensaver for desktop)

Gigan · 04-23-2003, 10:59 AM

I was watching techTV last week and they introduced a niffty ability that Mac OSX has which is giving the user the ability to use a screensaver as their backgroud. I was wondering if that is possible in linux (kde 3.1)? I know that windows has that ability by installing a program called Dreamscape (sp?). So is there one for linux or am I limited to my background image changing every 60 minutes? Thanks in advance.

Gigan

epitome · 04-27-2003, 04:35 PM

Check out this post.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ver+background

As a small note, try to exhaust a forum search here before posting, it helps eliminate redundency here.

Hope that link helps. I've been meaning to do this for awhile also, especially with XTheMatrix!

Good luck.

contrasutra · 04-27-2003, 07:22 PM

Hey, I use the code from the other thread that you linked to, and it does that, but only on an X background (like if I JUST have xserver running), so if I use GNOME or KDE, that just goes on top of it.

How can I get it to work in GNOME or KDE.

Thanks.

Aussie · 04-27-2003, 09:28 PM

I dont know about gnome but in kde there is an option in the background widget.

contrasutra · 04-27-2003, 09:55 PM

I dont see it. Could you tell me exactly what its called.

Are you running 3.1.1a, b/c im only running 3.1

Aussie · 04-27-2003, 10:02 PM

KControl-->Appearance & Themes-->Background.
On the first tab (Background) click on the Mode: dropdown and select 'Background Program', then click on the 'Setup' button to configure.