glmatrix background

Having recently been upgraded to Fedora Core 16 and discovering that Gnome3 and KDE are both unusable I have switched to XFCE4 and have been pleasantly surprised by how light and fast it is by comparison. A further surprise is that I can once again easily run an animated glmatrix background.

http://inspirated.com/2010/11/17/howto-use-animated-xscreensaver-matrix-backgrounds-with-xfce

/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id $(xwininfo -name "Desktop" | grep 'Window id' | sed 's/.*\(0x[0-9a-z]*\).*/\1/g')

If you then enable compositing and transparent windows beautiful things happen :D