I've Used Terminal to Make an Animated ScreenSaver an Active Desktop
By entering the following at the terminal prompt:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app /Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &
I was able to make a cool screensaver my desktop. I found this out while looking at comments on versiontracker about a program called Xback. I've been exploring the terminal tutorials and this is an interesting use for it. I was afraid I might have PERMANTELY layered my previous desktop image. I was pleased to discover that when I closed the Terminal window and used expose to activate a screen saver and then return to the desktop, the animated desktop screen saver was gone. I THINK this command line only works when you have a terminal window open.
Can anyone comment on the use of this command line? I would like to use it again BUT I am apprehensive of what perminant changes I may make to how my OS X works.
Thank you for any responses
Aloha, Mike
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app /Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &
I was able to make a cool screensaver my desktop. I found this out while looking at comments on versiontracker about a program called Xback. I've been exploring the terminal tutorials and this is an interesting use for it. I was afraid I might have PERMANTELY layered my previous desktop image. I was pleased to discover that when I closed the Terminal window and used expose to activate a screen saver and then return to the desktop, the animated desktop screen saver was gone. I THINK this command line only works when you have a terminal window open.
Can anyone comment on the use of this command line? I would like to use it again BUT I am apprehensive of what perminant changes I may make to how my OS X works.
Thank you for any responses
Aloha, Mike
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
