you could always have your script determine your current desktop image, run xscreensaver as your wallpaper (with -root) and put your original desktop image back when you're done. i don't have xscreensaver installed so i don't know if you can put a time limit on it. but you could, say, have the script run it, wait for 30-45 seconds just long enough for you to write your captions then swap back to your original desktop image. then again, i think it might not even replace your desktop image completely, but rather just display on top of it. worth a shot...
~clay
----- Original Message -----
From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2004 6:04 pm
Subject: Opening apps in the background
> I've got a small script I use to generate HTML pages for my
> personal website. One of the things the script does is start
> xscreensaver to view a photo, so that I can type a description into
> it.
> It works great, except that I have to take my hands off of the
> keyboard, and click with the mouse after opening xscreensaver in
> order to get the focus back to my terminal window.
>
> Anyone know how to open xscreensaver in the background, so that the
> focus stays on the terminal window where I'll be typing?
>
> (I guess I could do all this in PerlTK, but the bash script was
> very quick & works just fine.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
> Bonus points if you can ID my old WYSIWYG HTML editor from the
> script contents...
>
> ------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> ##########################################################
> # pagegen.sh
> # HTML slideshow page generator with zuelow.net colorscheme
> # Depends on images already scanned & resized, with images
> # in jpeg format ,named to sort into a series and alone in the
> # Resources dir.
> #
> # Move HTML & jpegs manually to site directory after creation &
> testing..#
> # James Zuelow // Juneau Linux Users Group
> # $Log: pagegen.sh,v $
> # Revision 1.3 2004/07/29 05:04:55 james
> # Corrected human numbering (1,2,3 not 101,102,103...)
> #
> # Revision 1.2 2004/07/29 04:57:11 james
> # Changed numbering scheme to 101+ to match rescalejpg.sh scheme.
> #
> ##########################################################
> i=100
>
> echo -n "Enter series (filename) title: "
> read PGtitle
> echo -n "Enter descriptive (human) title: "
> read PGhtitle
> echo "Select the pageup target:"
> select pageup in phoenpg.html calvinpg.html photopg.html
> do
> PGup=$pageup
> break
> done
> h=`find ./Resources -name "*.jpg" | wc -l`
> for PGimage in `find ./ -name "*.jpg" | cut -c 3-`
> do
> (( i = i + 1 ))
> (( j = i - 1 ))
> (( k = i + 1 ))
> (( l = i - 100 ))
> if [ $i -gt 101 ]
> then
> PvPG="Previous Photo "
> else
> PvPG=""
> fi
> if [ $i -lt $h ]
> then
> NxPG=" Next Photo"
> RePG="<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" CONTENT=\"30;
> url=${PGtitle}${k}.html\">"else
> NxPG=""
> RePG=""
> fi
> echo "<HTML>" > ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo "<HEAD>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo "<META NAME=\"GENERATOR\" CONTENT=\"Bash 2.05b scripting by
> James Zuelow, Juneau Linux Users Group\">" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo "<TITLE>${PGhtitle} No.${l}</TITLE>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo $RePG >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo "</HEAD>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo "<BODY TEXT=\"#ffffcc\" BGCOLOR=\"#000000\" LINK=\"#ffcc66\"
> ALINK=\"#ff9900\" VLINK=\"#cc9933\">" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
>
> echo "<P><CENTER>${PvPG}Photo Page${NxPG}</CENTER></P>" >>
> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
>
> echo "<P><CENTER><IMG SRC=\"${PGimage}\" ALT=\"${PGhtitle}
> No.${l}\" ALIGN=\"BOTTOM\" BORDER=\"0\"
> NATURALSIZEFLAG=\"3\"></CENTER></P>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
>
> xslideshow ${PGimage} &
> echo -n "Enter image description: "
> read PGimageDESC
> killall xslideshow
>
> echo "<P><CENTER><FONT
> COLOR=\"#ffffe1\">${PGimageDESC}</FONT></CENTER>" >>
> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo "</BODY>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> echo "</HTML>" >> ${PGtitle}${i}.html
> done
> exit
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