Hi there,

I know its possible to get your screensaver to come up as a wallpaper by punching in a long winded command in the terminal, however, does anyone know an easy way i could make a shortcut to this command like i would make a batch file in windows for instance? and how i could have that shortcut in my dock or on the menu bar?

ta

Whoops my bad, teach me not to read the entire post.

You could try the following Applescript

Unfortunately I know very little about Applescript and when testing it the script will freeze until you quit the "screensaver engine" using Activity Monitor.

Are you interested in a static image, changing images, or the same effect as the screen saver??

You can set a folder as your wallpaper with the images changing to a set time - all through system preferences. This can be the same folder (which you can also choose) for your screensaver

Desksaver Plus and SaveHollywood

There's also Backlight - it gives you a menubar control.

basically i want the screen saver as my desktop as it appears when its activated as a screen saver. its one of the digg labs screen savers, so its constantly moving.

there is an option in onyx to enable the screensaver as desktop...

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

having the RSS screensaver as the desktop is pretty cool... for a little while anyway

Somebody on #apple asked me a while back to write an app to launch a screensaver on the Desktop and I knocked out a second app to kill the screen saver. Both apps are here:

http://macdave.com/temp/savers.zip

Written with Platypus

On another note, the Fenetres Volantes screensaver looks cool as hell on my new 30" monitor for about 10 seconds, then becomes annoying as hell. =)

Dave

I did a few dodgy videos on youtube of a video desktop background, back when I had a PB G4 1.5 They are on you tube. Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8EgKNtO3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiAvPMVmMIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-HhUkJn9oE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Zj5s9_vrg

they look a bit jumpy, but that's youtube, they looked great on the PB.

Anyway, I used Backlight 2 to do this, as you can run the screen saver as a desktop back ground WITH transparency, over a similar static background. So you could find a background that is some rocks in a creek bed, then have a transparent video of water running by. I filmed the videos locally, with the camera on a tripod.

As for getting videos as a screensaver, i used Voop, http://metastatic.org/source/Voop/

Put alias's for video files you want into a folder, point voop there. I think by default it hunts over the file system looking for any video files and displays things randomly. Cool but not the effect I was after.

i think a starfield simulation type screensaver will look great over the default leopard background.

Thread was going off-topic, so I moved the posts arguing over GUI vs. Terminal into a new thread: Command Line vs. GUI Discussion

Biggest waste of computer resources ever.
Actually think how much co2 could be saved if people just used the monitor shut off rather than the extra CPU power screensavers take not even considering what turning off a monitor saves.

Which was a good move, until Currawong overstepped the mark and closed the thread while it was still discussing this interesting topic. Yes, he'll say he had a reason, blah, blah.... but it seemed more of a vendetta.

Hear, hear! Instead he should have split it again, into "GUI vs CLI" and "Amiga Workbench vs the rest of the World".

Cheers
Steffen.