xwinwrap - screensavers, movies on desktop (Xgl)

CoffeeBuzz · Last edited by CoffeeBuzz on Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:48 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hey folks. Just added xwinwrap to my overlay (http://www.tripthelight.net/xgloverlay).

For those running Xgl, emerge it and try this!

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

Incredible!!!

Movies playing on your desktop?

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

Play around with it. Post your cool xwinwrap tricks here.
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roderick · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

Cool.

Will try it out shortly...
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Gangsta · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 12

sounds cool, i'm emerging xscreensaver now to check it out.

It runs great but the first 5 seconds i get a black screen, and then its starts up.

jobi · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 38 Location: Oslo,Norway

CoffeeBuzz, thanks _a lot_ for maintaing the overlay. I really appreciate your effort! Doing svn up at the end of the day always seems to bring in new goodies

moppsy · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 51

This is what I found in the source.

-g = parse geometry
-ni = no input
-argb = argb visual
-fs = full screen
-s = sticky
-st = skip taskbar
-sp = skip pager
-a = above
-b = below
-nf = no focus
-o OPACITY

WhiteRazor · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Netherlands

Hm, really nice. Good work!

i really like to use it with glsnake. (and some logs scrolling quietly in the background.)

nec · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 16

hi there,
big thanks for the ebuilds:) and of course for the tips!

, do you know how i can get more openGL screensavers like in the xscreensaver bundle?
i ask because in the demo video i see lot of this.

greetings
nec

Phlogiston · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot coffeBuzz! Your work is awesome.

The tool works flawlessly here.

Have a nice day!
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Belliash · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:08 am Post subject:

Do you have any small movies, that could be repeated?
Eg any fields, or sth?

There was any movie in e17 presentation movie.
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roderick · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

Ok, I can get it to run.. but it doesn't work well on my Intel 855GME.

Here's what mplayer says:

Jupiter1TX · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 546 Location: 3rd Rock

Thank you so much for your hard work CoffeeBuzz. Your overlay makes things so easy.

The xwinwrap playing a movie in the background works great.

I am having a problem running the xwinwrap with xscreensaver. I have xscreensaver installed and it works. But in the xwinwrap instructions it has a path of /usr/lib/xscreensaver. I have no such directory. The only dir that i found was in /usr/share/xscreensaver/ and that doesn't work with xwinwrap. It says "No such file or directory"

am using gnome with modular xorg 7
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vdemeester · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: Re: No /usr/lib/xscreensaver

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gravedigga_23 · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject:

I have some Problems with xwinwrap!
The performance is badly with this command:

humpback · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:09 am Post subject:

On my ati X700 i just changed your command to point to the proper place and changed -a to -b so that it runs behind everything....

gravedigga_23 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:27 am Post subject:

the -b and -a switches didnt solve my problem.

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gravedigga_23 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:44 am Post subject:

Hey,
thanks for ur answer!
When i run it without -fs Option all is fine. But when it is enabled the errors come.
The -root Option didnt solve it.
What do u mean with:

gravedigga_23 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject:

Maybe this can help solve the problem:
There are 2 plugins wich dont work for me, the Switcher and Scale.
The grafical Curruption reminds me on that from the screensaver.

moppsy · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 51

gravedigga_23 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:

none of the visual ids from xpdyinfo function :-(

maybe theres an error in the xorg.conf or in the startscript
I use a Nvidia Card with newest unstable driver, modulary xorg and newest Compiz/Xgl

Startscript:

Devport · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 361

It didn't work for me, too. Now it works. Don't know what of the changes did it - I updated xgl overlay, updated gnome-2.14 and today I upgraded to gentoo tree's glproto. Maybe you want to try some of these

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gravedigga_23 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject:

Hmm all up to date.
except of gnome, i will update...