On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 14:33, Jim C wrote: > 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.
Jim, Haven't done it. Except for the default entry of kworldclock but in the kcontrol --> look n feel --> backgrounds on the first tab (labeled background) in the mode button the 3rd item is Background program. This is supposed to allow you to run a program in the background as wallpaper. James
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