Xwinwrap

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Introduction

xwinwrap is a utility, written by David Reveman/Novell, that will make cool things happen on your desktop. You can run your screensavers, play movies etc, and it will look as if they are part of your background. These instructions have only been tested in GNOME.

How?

To make it happen, this is what you have to do:

Installation

Packages are available in the following repository:

http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11:/XGL/

zypper sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_10.3/ xgl
zypper install xwinwrap

If you like you can install compiz and beryl packages from the repository too.

To compile it yourself

• Install cvs, xorg-x11-devel, make and gcc
• Create and change to a directory of your choice, where the source code will be downloaded to.
• cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xapps co xwinwrap
• cd xwinwrap
• Then run make

On SLED 10 and SUSE Linux 10.1

• Edit the Makefile so that the LD line looks as follows then run make;

 LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXrender

If everything compiles properly, you should now have a binary called xwinwrap.

Run

If you installed the packages from the repository run the following in terminal window and follow the on screen instructions:

coolbg

Manually the following command can be run changing the relevant paths;

 xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -a -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id WID

This should run the Matrix screensaver in the foreground. To make it run in the background, change -a to -b.

More things to try:

 xwinwrap -ni -o 0.6 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- mplayer -wid WID -quiet movie.mpg

If you have the quake demo installed, you could try;

 xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- q3demo -window-id WID

If you like to see the log messages scrolling on your desktop, run the following as root:

  xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -root -window-id WID -program 'tail -f /var/log/messages'

You can run any command in place of "tail" to display it's output on screen, see man phosphor.

Options

FS

fullscreen

S

sticky

ST

Skip Taskbar

SP

Skip Pager

A

Above

B

Below

NF

No Focus

O

Opaque

NI

No Input