Screensaver as a Desktop Wallpaper

Did you ever dream about Matrix Desktop? A desktop where you could use your screensaver as your desktop wallpaper? Today I’m going to show you a way how you can achieve this effect in Linux, especially when you use Gnome as your desktop environment:
1. The first step we need to take is turn off Nautilus which draws the current desktop and icons in Gnome:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

2. Next we need to turn up xscreensaver and its ‘glmatrix’ screensaver (nice Matrix movie like screensaver) in the root window (in the desktop):

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root

3. Congratulations! That’s all
4. Optional: If you would like to start the animation whenever you log in, then create a file “~/.config/autostart/glmatrix.desktop” with the following content:
After you would like to get back to your previous desktop, just insert the following on the command line (ElecBoy thanks for that):
When all steps are successfully done we should expect something like this: