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NEW WALLPAPER!!!

I'm not sure what look I'm going to go for with my new desktop. I'm considering seeing if I can rip off KDE's icon themes to save me some legwork, or making the new theme be what I use to learn Blender & get better with the Gimp.

Whatever. I have no idea what to make my screen look like. So it's tricky putting an appropriate wallpaper onto the background. But I was playing around with some of the screensaver hacks (Xscreensaver, I have missed thee! and one of those gave me an idea...

It's called "webcollage" and it's certainly a NSFW option: It randomly grabs image files and makes a collage of them on your screen. And of course, we all know what that means...

But you can ALSO set it to run like a wallpaper - like you can any Xscreensaver hack (which prompted Tina to ask if I could find a Windows version of the GLMatrix one) but more importantly, you can set it to generate a screen-sized collage in a JPEG gile, and then set THAT to be your wallpaper.

Which means, to summarise:
Running the command /usr/lib/xscreensaver/webcollage -size 1280x800 -delay 2 -v -imagemap ~/background in Debian will create a file in your home directory called background.jpg which is made up of random image files from the web.

How cool is that??

You actually get a surprisingly low amount of porn at the default settings, and could probably reduce it even more with a little work. But it really is fascinating, seeing what you get as a wallpaper with this...

1 comment

sokuban
Comment from: sokuban [Member] Email
You'll find this wallpaper interesting now, but when the day comes that it'll show you a goatsee (or something of equal destructive power) and you'll rush to change your wallpaper to something else.
27/06/09 @ 22:14

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