OK, nothing particularly new or interesting here but screen savers can make pretty nice desktops so I thought I'd use GLslideshow to cycle through all the images in my "desktop" folder.

This is easily done by first telling Nautilus not to handle the desktop any more, the "downside" of this is if your one of those weird people who have icons on their desktop is that your icons will no longer be available. Also this is not compatible with Xcompmgr or XGL (though there is another way of running a screen saver in as a desktop and running XGL.

Fire up Gnome Configuration Editor and find /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop

Uncheck this and now run your screen saver of choice, for Ubuntu screen savers are located in /usr/lib/xscreensaver

To get the screensaver to work as your desktop simply append -root e.g run the command /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root

I use /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glslideshow -root -duration 30 -pan 30 -fade 5 to cycle my desktop image every 30 seconds with a 5 second cross fade effect.

To make this effect permanent open Gnome Session Properties (command: gnome-session-properties
or via menus System Preferences Sessions) and under the Startup Programs tab click the Add button, enter the command you use to launch your screensaver as a desktop background and your done.

Simple hack with instant results



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