[expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candy thoughts

[Jim C]

Thing is that if you are running Linux as a kioske sort of thing you 
want some nice eye catching candy.   You might be marketing a desktop PC 
with preinstalled Linux  in your shop, for example.  So what about 
finding a way to run a screensaver while the logon screen is up, for 
example, or perhaps as a background for the logon screen?
This would be especially cool if one might find a way to reduce the foot 
print of the logon dialog.  Perhaps by making it mostly transparent by 
using some of Mosfet's stuff?

Anyway, I remember way back when... I ran a screen saver as a background 
for my desktop.  It was especially cool.  This was quite a long time ago...
I've long since fogotten how to do this but if anyone can give me some 
tips I sure would appreciate it.  I do remember something about "running 
it in the root window" or something.   I think I had to edit an X (or 
was it KDE?) startup script too.

Probably what I really need to know is where the screensavers are kept.  
The names in KDE don't seem to match up with files. 

Jim C.



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