How to Make Your Screensaver Your Desktop
Posted 01/12/2011 at 11:04am
| by J.R. Bookwalter, Cory Bohon, Scott Rose, Ray Aguilera, Adam Berenstain and Paul Curthoys
You know that screensaver, right? Now it’s your wallpaper! Whoa. Trippy.
If you have a nice-looking screensaver like us, you want to see it all the time. Type the command below in Terminal, and your current screensaver will appear as your Desktop’s background image. Then, as with all commands on this page and the next, hit Return.
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &
Simple? Check. Fun? Totally. But if you get motion sickness, simply close the Terminal window to return your Desktop to normal.
