Weblog entry #4 for figjam
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How do I get gnome-screensaver to play a video?
Posted by figjam on Sun 8 Jun 2008 at 04:14
I only use my screen saver at work for security, to lock my screen when I'm away from my desk. I want to have a little fun and have it play a video, but I've hit a brick wall as to how to make it happen.
Xscreensaver works fine with an entry like:
"Test" plaympeg --fullscreen "Breaking the Habit.mpeg" \n\
and I understood from a bit of google'ing that creating the following videos.desktop file in my home directory under:
.local/share/applications/screensavers/
should be the equivalent.
cat .local/share/applications/screensavers/videos.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Videos
Domment=Videos
Exec=plaympeg --fullscreen "/usr/local/share/music/Linkin Park/Breaking the Habit/Breaking the Habit.mpeg"
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Screensaver
"Videos" shows up in the list, but I just get a blank screen when I try to preview it. Has anyone got anything similar to work? Any suggestions or advice on how to debug this further gratefully accepted.
Xscreensaver works fine with an entry like:
"Test" plaympeg --fullscreen "Breaking the Habit.mpeg" \n\
and I understood from a bit of google'ing that creating the following videos.desktop file in my home directory under:
.local/share/applications/screensavers/
should be the equivalent.
cat .local/share/applications/screensavers/videos.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Videos
Domment=Videos
Exec=plaympeg --fullscreen "/usr/local/share/music/Linkin Park/Breaking the Habit/Breaking the Habit.mpeg"
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Screensaver
"Videos" shows up in the list, but I just get a blank screen when I try to preview it. Has anyone got anything similar to work? Any suggestions or advice on how to debug this further gratefully accepted.
Comments on this Entry
Posted by Anonymous (201.255.xx.xx) on Sat 30 May 2009 at 18:51
I've not tried it but it seems that it's possible to do with xwinwrap.
http://en.opensuse.org/Xwinwrap
http://en.opensuse.org/Xwinwrap
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