dreamscene effect on ubuntu

by Alexander Vassbotn Røyne

09:10:57 Wednesday, September 26 2007

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dreamscene effect on ubuntu

published: 09:10:57 Wednesday, September 26 2007

dreamscene effect on ubuntu

Stumbled over a great effect for my gnome desktop on Ubuntu Studio, a Dreamscene look-a-like effect. The best thing was that I only needed 2 lines in the console for making this effect!

What is Windows Dreamscene? Windows Dreamscene is one of the extras Microsoft has provided for Windows Vista Ultimate users. Windows DreamScene is a utility that allows videos and other optimized animations to be used as desktop wallpapers. It is one of the Windows Ultimate Extras. Prior to its official announcement, DreamScene was rumored to be in creation under the names Motion Desktop and Borealis.

Enough facts, this is how you do it:

Note: You can only do this in a Gnome GUI!

Nautilus draws the desktop (including the icons) for you in Gnome by default. You have to tell it to stop doing that, so we can do the matrix animation in its place. Nautilus can be configured using gconf.

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

Now that you have the desktop to ourselves, ask xscreensaver 'glmatrix' to start drawing itself in the desktop window ('root' window).

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root

If you want the animation every time you log in, open "~/.config/autostart/glmatrix.desktop" in your text editor and paste the following:

[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=No name Name[en_IN]=Desktop matrix Exec=/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

If you are fed up with playing around and want your old desktop back, use this line in the terminal:

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

Sources: winmatrix.com us flag (m.sudoku - "DreamScene for Linux: Screensaver as Desktop Wallpaper"), wikipedia.org us flag (dreamscene)

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Hva er hensikten med denne pensjonen?

by Mr. Ed 23:13:02 Friday, 12 October 2007

Thanks for your useful blog!

Hva er hensikten med denne pensjonen?

by Neo 07:02:15 Thursday, 31 January 2008

Did not work. Showed up on top of everything else and as a partial screensaver.

Hva er hensikten med denne pensjonen?

your gravatar by Alexander V. Røyne Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:59:24 +0100

Neo: that was the general idea yes. I think it's a nother big step before we can really copy the Vista Dreamscene effect.

Hva er hensikten med denne pensjonen?

your gravatar by boris brecker last month

found another cool site outthere http://www.dreamscene.org hq dreamscene´s completly free, fast downloads, no registration, and they have a tool called xpscene wich allows you tun run dreamscene´s on your xp system all files are in .wmv

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