TuxTraining

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Fluxbox isn’t like KDE or Gnome in the sense that there’s a ‘desktop configuration tool’. To change the desktop wallpaper, for example. you’ll have to drop into a terminal window. It’s not hard, just different.

1. Get the image you’d like to use as your desktop wallpaper downloaded or otherwise saved somewhere on your sytem
2. Open a terminal window and use your favorite text editor to open your ~/.fluxbox/startup file.
3. Look for a line that starts with the command fbsetbg. If you see one, edit it to reflect the path to your new background image. If you don’t see such a line, make a new one as such (note: depending on your screen size you may see this as two lines, this should be one line in your startup file:
   

   fbsetbg -f /home/jon/.fluxbox/backgrounds/my_background.jpg

Another way to get this to set every time you start fluxbox is as follows by adding the command to the ~/.fluxbox/init file. Find the line beginning with session.screen0.rootCommand: and enter the proper command afterward ( fbsetbg -f /home/jon/.fluxbox/backgrounds/my_background.jpg ). You can also use the simplified command fbsetbg -l to load the last wallpaper loaded by fbsetbg, to avoid changing the init file each time you change your wallpaper.

From the home site:

Wallpapoz application enables you to configure Gnome desktop wallpapers in unique way. You could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when the specified time has passed. The most important feature is you could have Gnome desktop wallpaper changes when you change workspace. It means you could group your wallpapers into specific workspace. It offers quick orientation cues where you are. You can manage it so when you change to first workspace, your desktop wallpaper will be picked from wallpapers group for that workspace. When you change to second workspace, it will be picked from wallpapers group for second workspace. So you could have situation like this. You change to third workspace and you will get cartoon desktop wallpaper (wallpapers group for that workspace consists of cartoon wallpapers only). You change to fourth workspace and you will get abstract desktop wallpaper (wallpapers group for that workspace consists of abstract wallpapers only). I think you get the idea. Off course you can disable this feature if you just want your desktop wallpaper changes when the specified time (specified by you) has passed and does not change when you change workspace.

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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.