[Wylug-discuss] Xscreensaver as wallpaper

[James Holden]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:28:47AM +0100, Kevin Barrass wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Years ago I used to be able to run an xscreensaver as a wallpaper on
> redhat Linux running ./glmatrix -root.

You hacker.

> I have recently got back into Linux and run latest release of Ubuntu
> Desktop Linux and the above no longer works the command runs with no
> problems but the desktop background stays as it is with a wallpaper. I
> even tried disabling the wallpaper and running the above.
> I use Gnome as my window manager, has anyone ideas what might be
> stopping this from working.

Oh it's working, but you don't see it. Gnome is drawing the desktop over
the top of it, obscuring the root window.

Run gconf-editor (from a command prompt, it's not in the Ubuntu menus),
and change apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop to false (unticked).

James
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