Running video or any other program on the desktop is possible from day one. In X server, desktop is just a window which has a special name: root window. You can run any video with MPlayer by following command:
$ mplayer -rootwin -fs my_cool_video.avi > actully this 1 works but not as i wanted as he mentioned had to hide > my desktop icons and worse thing cant see any opend window .all behind > the animated video wall just can see top bottom panel. damm can get my > desktop icons back using given command . The problem with Gnome is that, nautilus already captures the desktop window. Therefore you need to disable nautilus from desktop. -- M. Nasimul Haque, M.Sc.(SUST) Wessex Institute of Technology Southampton, UK -- Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu.linux.org.bd [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
