Ever wanted to spruce up your plain, boring desktop? There’s actually a way you can use your screensaver as your desktop wallpaper. In this video, I’ll show you two different ways of going about doing this.
Terminal text:
cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/
ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background
Michael Steeber is a student who is obsessed with everything Apple. He enjoys making videos and runs the MSComputerVideos YouTube channel in his free time. You can follow him on Twitter as well.
9 responses to “Use A Screensaver As Your Desktop Wallpaper [Video How-To]”
Tried the terminal method on Macbook Pro 15″ late 2008 unibody with OS X 10.7.2 and background stayed the same, no screensaver…
In my efforts to do this and create a root user i discovered u can make the screen saver background permanent just with terminal (till u restart). If u enable root user and login via su – and then type in ur terminal commands the screen saver will stay as background even after closing down terminal only issue is it seems that the root user “standard” screensaver is set to one of them and cant be changed.
With Wallsaver we can’t select our custome screensavers (the ones we downloaded and installed ourselves) can we?
My Living Desktop is the better choice, of course.
It’s funny how if I read COM long enough, the weird ‘how-to’ stuff that keeps me up at night is solved.
Thank you Michael!
Hey Michael! Good job! :)
thank you!
eh. a great way to needlessly use up system resources for something not too many of us look at.
I look at my desktop more than I look at my screen while it’s blanked.