Make your xscreensaver your Gnome Wallpaper

Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Gnome, Tweaks by admin

If you found a screen saver that you like, wouldn’t it be nice if you could set it as your wallpaper? Well you can with a few changes to a couple Gnome settings. Generally Nautilus controls the desktop drawing so we need to turn that off.

  • In your terminal: gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
  • Browse your /usr/lib/xscreensaver/ directory for the screensaver you would like.
  • Then in your terminal: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/name_of_screensaver -root
  • Your screen will now show the screensaver.
  • To resume back to your original desktop: gconftool-2 -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -t bool true && nautilus

And voila, all done.

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