Many of those fancy animated wallpapers you see when watching fancy xgl videos around the net are in large part thanks to a little program - xwinwrap, developed by David Reveman of Novell and release as OSS.

This little app makes it possible via GL to add animation to your desktop, so screensavers and even videos can now decorate your desktops.

Getting it to install is as quick as downloading the source and compiling it, this is done by:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xapps co xwinwrap
cd xwinwrap
make

you can run xwinrap simply by ./xwinwrap or if you have super user privlidges make it accessible from anywhere by copying the app into your /usr/bin folder:

cp xwinwrap /usr/bin/

Now that it’s installed to animate your deskop just run the following comands

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

**Change glmatrix or the path to point at whatever screensaver you want, unless of course you want to use the matrix screensaver.**

You can also set it to play a movie using mplayer by doing something like:

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

And what you can exepct in the end is something like:

A common problem that seems to plague most after installing XGL is the loss of the Windows Key aka super key or winkey.  Off course its not a big deal since it just involves having to re-map all your shortcuts that use the winkey to some other key but that just seems like a hastle. Anyways heres a few tips I picked up on how to get it working. 1) Modify Xorg keyboard section, add the following line in your Xorg under the keyboard section:

Option      “XkbOptions” “altwin:super_win”

2) Assuming you’re using XGL and Beryl on Ubuntu you most likely created a session file such as /usr/local/bin/startxgl.sh anyways at the end alongside your exec add:

& xmodmap -e “clear Mod4″ & xmodmap -e “add Mod4 = Super_L”

or you could just run the above in a prompt minus the ‘&’ and everything should start working for you also.

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