Bash Script to Set Random XScreensaver as background

Posted on Wednesday the 10th of October, 2007 at 12:39 pm in Linux

This short bash script will randomly select a screensaver and display it in your background window, so you can have a random screensaver background instead of having to select a particular. Obviously you will need to have Xscreensaver installed for it to work.

!/bin/bash
files=(/usr/lib/xscreensaver/*) # Look for files in the XScreensaver folder n=${#files[@]} # For aesthetics "${files[RANDOM % n]}" -root & # Choose a random screensaver and execute it in the root window.

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