~ Random Ramblings ~: Run a movie as your desktop background

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Run a movie as your desktop background

Here's a cool trick for you.

Replace the boring wallpaper on your desktop with a movie.

$gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
$mplayer -rootwin -fs movie_file.avi

1 comment:

NishanSeptember 6, 2008 at 6:40 AM
This, of course, is for gnu/linux systems.

To get back your old desktop, you can use this command:

$gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true && nautilus
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