Do you find the background of your display manager boring?
(Alternatively: want to make it even fancier?)
Why not run something in the background, on the root window? (you know,
this thing blocked by both KDE and GNOME's desktops).
In gdm this is quite simple: /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default is a script that
will be run at he gdm display's startup. This is the place to add your own
stuff.
Remember, though, that you should probably run programs there with '&' in
the end, to send them to the background, otherwise the script will wait
for them to finish.
So what can you run?
* xfishtank: Displays an ocean-coloured fish tank with some fish swiming.
Quite calming. Not CPU intensive[1]. Quite a sane default.
* xlock: (of the package xloxkmore), run with "xloxk -inroot". Try a
random mode, or pick your own set. You have many to choose from.
Generally more CPU-intensive.
* xscreensaver: try running programs from /usr/local/lib/screensaver/*
with the option -root
Any other recommendations (xoj, xroach: not)?
[1] A computer may have other things to do than serve interactive users:
there may be remote users. There may be users on other displays, and there
may be tasks in the background. It is also possible to run a
cpu-intenssive "background" with a high nice value.
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Tzafrir Cohen
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