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    Lightbulb A "Show-and-Tell" Screensaver (for Linux)

    My favorite screensaver is the one in MacOS X, which creates an on-screen collage, using whatever is in my homedir's "Pictures" folder. However, I run the GNU/Linux operating system and, even though mine is Gnome-based and themed for the MacOS X "look-and-feel" (Mac4Lin), it's not. But I did not despair, oh no. Instead, I found the "webcollage" package for the "xscreensaver" package, and the following screensaver-config-file (edit and place in /usr/share/applications/screensavers/my-shaving-collage.desktop):

    Code:
    [Desktop Entry]
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Name=MySOTDCollage
    Comment=This makes collages out of images pulled from my SOTD pictures. See also http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1999.
    TryExec=webcollage
    Exec=webcollage -root -delay 1 -opacity 1 -directory /home/horen/public_html/jpegs/shaving <-- change this to /your/SOTD/photo/dir
    StartupNotify=false
    Terminal=false
    Type=Application
    Categories=Screensaver;
    OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
    Here is a screenshot of my screensaver, in action:
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