[Wylug-discuss] Xscreensaver as wallpaper

[Kevin Barrass]

Hi

Cheers to all on feedback disabling show_desktop worked :0)

Kind Regards

Kev

-----Original Message-----
From: James Holden [mailto:james at jamesholden.net] 
Sent: 17 October 2007 11:43
To: Kevin Barrass
Cc: WYLUG; kevi at teacake.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Xscreensaver as wallpaper

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