Getting bored of a stagnant desktop wallpaper?  Why not run your xscreensaver as an animated desktop background?

It's very easy to run a screensaver as your desktop background within Beryl, and you can get some pretty wicked-cool effects to woo and impress your lame Windows-using friends.  It's fun to be like, "bliss sucks".  After seeing your desktop, they'll tend to agree.  And then they'll want to try it, but they'll find out they need a better video card    Well, that's another story.

Here's a quick video demo.  Remember, I'm capturing at 1680x1050; and that uses a lot of CPU... so even though it appears a little bit choppy, it's actually perfectly smooth during normal operation (when not capturing the video).

Because you already have Beryl installed, I'm expecting you have the Beryl repositories set up in your apt sources.list.  Therefore, the following commands will work:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xwinwrap

Now that xwinwrap is installed, try running skyrocket as your wallpaper as follows: 

xwinwrap -ni -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/skyrocket -window-id WID &

If you love it, and it runs well, feel free to add the command to your startup programs.

If skyrocket runs choppy or poorly (it's a pretty intensive screensaver for some older PCs), try using a different screensaver.  Go to /usr/lib/xscreensaver to see all the available screensavers, and try substituting skyrocket with the screensaver of your choice in the xwinwrap command.

To STOP the screensaver, use killall -9 skyrocket (or whichever screensaver you loaded).