User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070602 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Build Identifier: At the moment running xfdesktop is incompatible with using an xscreensaver component to draw an animated desktop background. I really like xfdesktop's clean practical design from a functionality standpoint, but would like a little more eyecandy in the background & with all of xfce's efficiency, I have cycles to burn. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.$ killall xfdesktop 2.$ /usr/lib/misc/xscreensaver/substrate -root 3.$ echo "OOOOOOooooooooohhhh aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAhhhhhh" 4.$ [ctrl-c] 5.$ xfdesktop & 6.$ echo "sigh" Actual Results: animated desktop that uses existing code Expected Results: a way to run a screensaver in the root window but otherwise use the wonderfully compact but feature perfect xdfesktop to handle my right-click dependency problems FYI: also good value... $ ./flurry -root -preset water $ ./popsquares -root -delay 30000 -subdivision 32 -ncolors 256 -fg "#123456" -bg "#ABCDEF" $ ./interaggregate -root -growth-delay 60000
This doesn't require special support from xfdesktop. For example: $ cd /usr/lib/misc/xscreensaver $ ./interaggregate -window-id `xprop -root XFCE_DESKTOP_WINDOW | cut -d# -f1` ... works fine for me.
Wow! That's simple. You're great! I needed: cut -d# -f2