Tag Archives: desktop

Drawing on your Desktop 5

This is related to the previous post and is meant in part to demonstrate how great Linux is for doing “weird” stuff . This is what we are trying to do. The circles in the background have been drawn by the python script below. To get the script running you should have python and pygame [...]

Matrix Desktop 41

What you see above is how my desktop looks now. You need to be using gnome to get this working. Nautilus draws the desktop (including the icons) for you in gnome by default. We have to tell it to stop doing that, so we can do the matrix animation in its place. Nautilus can be [...]