Terminal Tips: Make your Screensaver a desktop background

It says "No such file or directory." Any suggestions?

First of all: thanks, TUAW, for digging up the world's oldest (and most useless) trick.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020824082233907
(Eat that, Vista-lovers!)

Secondly, I remember this causing much trouble when you had your computer set to require a password when waking up from screensaver. Whoops!

As for performance, I found it no worse than what the screensaver normally drew. I remember running this with Flurry as my desktop with several colored, semi-transparent Terminal windows over it and a DivX'd AVI playing in MPlayer on my 800 MHz G3 iBook, back when Jaguar was the new hotness. (Quartz Extreme was what made this all possible.)

OK, dumb question but this is a cool trick. How can I create a '.bat' file equivalent on my Mac?

Thanks,

tim

I second xBack. Been using it for years. xBack running Marine Aquarium, now that's cool. Only about 8% of my iMac CPU. Don't even notice that.

I use xBack, it lets you use a different screen saver as your wallpaper than the normal screen saver thats been set.

http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/xback.html

Yes this is an old trick and it sucks. The reason why they said to restart computer is because it puts a chunk of load to ur processor.

At my job they have videos run as wallpaper and for years I've tried to learn how to do it, I've only figured it out today and guess what? After about half an hour or so my computer went on a kernel panic.

Anyone know a better way of using video (without sound of course) as your wallpaper? not screensaver but wallpaper.

I love the people who have suggested 'easier' ways of doing this by downloading third party software. What could be easier than copy and pasting a command?
I hate the Mac community's fear of the terminal. If you don't like it, don't read the Terminal Tips category!

For the record, the CPU load is somewhere in the 2% area on my system when running Flurry.

2.33 c2d

Somewhat related question... How are you changing the opacity on your terminal window?

This one looks kinda cool:
http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1pc9.png