{"id":14,"date":"2005-06-15T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T23:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2005-12-28T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-28T21:45:19","slug":"using-screen-saver-as-desktop-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/15\/using-screen-saver-as-desktop-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Screen Saver as Desktop Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

This “trick” puts whatever you have on your Screen Saver as the desktop image. While it’s not all that useful, it’s a pretty cool trick to show your geeky friends. Sorry, Mac OSX only.<\/p>\n

1. Open “Terminal” (Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal)
\n2. Type in exactly (no spaces or new lines):<\/p>\n

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<\/div><\/td>
\/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/ScreenSaver.framework\/
\nResources\/ScreenSaverEngine.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/
\nScreenSaverEngine -background<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

3. Press “Return”; watch the magic
\n4. To stop it, press: “ctrl” + “c” keys (in that order) within the Terminal\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cool huh?!<\/p>\n

References from this Mac Dev Center article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure if this kind of thing is available on Microsoft Windows. But damn this is a great gimmick to show your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-mac-osx","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}