How To Use A Screensaver As A Wallpaper

hey everyone today I'm going to show you

how you can use your screen saver as a

desktop wallpaper so normally you have

your you know choice of however many

desktops and while it's fine for a while

and you can always find new pictures

once while you might want to change it

up get a little more uh Fancy with your

desktop so what you can do is you can

actually set your desktop background as

a screen saver now there's two ways you

can do this and I'm going to show you

both of them today the first way is

using terminal so if you don't like

running third party programs in the

background or whatever you can use

terminal it's a little more difficult

cuz you have to run lines of code every

time you want to do it and when you

close terminal the background changes

back to your regular wallpaper but it

also works so I'm going to show you that

first just in case you'd want to do it

that way I'm going to open up a new

finder window and I'm going to go to

Macintosh HD applications utilities and

then of course terminal once I can find

it here

now there's two rather lengthy lines of

code that you're going to have to paste

in the terminal so I'm going to have

them below the video If you want to get

them and I'm just going to paste them in

here but you'll have to type CD space

and then I'm going to copy and paste

this first line of code all this does is

set it to the directory with your screen

savers in them and now that you're in

the directory there's a second line of

code that you paste that activates the

screen saver and the screen saver that's

active is the one that you have

currently set in in system preferences

so I paste this and you can see once I

hit enter that my background turns into

my screen saver now if you notice a drop

in frames a little bit of leg it is kind

of CPU intensive especially depending on

what kind of screen saver you have set

up and plus I do have three monitors

that are all pushing this as well and I

have several different applications

running on top so it probably will slow

down your system a little bit now to

stop this all I have to do is hit contrl

C and it's done and that's kind of the

issue with this you always have to have

terminal you know open somewhere even if

you minimize it and if you hit control C

it's done if you quit terminal it's over

as well so I figured there had to be a

better way to go about this so I found

this neat application called wallsaver

you can get it from wallsaver

app.com and you can just hit download

here it's a small file and it does

pretty much the same thing as terminal

but it's a lot easier because you don't

have to worry about uh copying and

pasting code so here I've got walls

saver open and all I have to do is hit

activate

and it'll do the same thing as terminal

but now you can see it's not using the

same screen savers I had before that's

cuz if you go into preferences you can

actually choose the screen saver you

want so let's say I want Spectrum

instead I can select that then I can hit

restore and then activate again and

it'll activate it with the new screen

saver in mind so this could actually be

pretty useful if you had like an RSS

type of thing going on and you wanted to

see your RSS feeds as they come in and

now the nice thing about walls saver is

I can close the window and it appears

that the program is not running uh but

yet it still runs and that's an

advantage it has over using terminal so

whatever method you want to do is fine

if you just want to do something

temporary it might be easier just to use

terminal once but either way there's two

methods you can do and there's actually

other third party programs out there

that do the same thing as this does I

just found that this one worked pretty

nice so I chose that one so there's how

you can set your desktop wallpaper as a

screen saver in Mac OS 10 if you have

anything that you'd like to see me do

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hope you found this video useful thank

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