Want to help me write articles and receive credit where it’s due? ( Thanks Oli for the heads up on xwinwrap! – Check out his blog, while you’re at it.) Anyways, the point I was trying to make is to follow me on Twitter, answer my occasional random questions, and get kudos. One wrong or missing switch will completely change the behavior of the program. This is really cool, but what if you need to change settings for something else? Here’s the lowdown on what each command switch does – and there are a LOT of them. xwinwrap -ni -o 0.20 -fs -s -sp -st -b -nf - /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root -window-id WID Now you can do some really funky stuff… like run the glmatrix screensaver as your desktop background: This last line is optional, but puts the command in your path for easy access. Sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxrender-dev libxext-dev cvs Installation Instructions (on Hardy Heron Beta) – mind the possible wordwrap: It allows you to run (most) any application as a desktop background. In Windows, it’s a really simple operation… add the HTML location to your “Active Desktop,” place in on your desk where you’d like then lock down the widget.įor Linux there’s something far, far more powerful called xwinwrap. Until today, I didn’t know if there was a way to set my Ubuntu desktop with a HTML file with animation and graphics. The Mario desktop I would like to install on my Desktop is a perfect example of things that “just work” in Windows don’t seem to be possible in Linux. Not just put up an image as a background – that’s straight from the late 80s. Right now, my desktop is an minimalistic and functional solid black background.

I’ve been occasionally looking for something in Linux that would spruce up the place.

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