HTML document as wallpaper on gnome

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On 4/9/06, William Stephens <wstephens10 at cox.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to convince my wife to use ubuntu on her laptop and one of
> the main reason she is keeping windows is because you can use a html
> document as the wallpaper. I'm still a linux newbie myself so I was
> wondering if there was a way to use a html document as your wallpaper in
> gnome? Thanks!
>

using the xsetroot command you can run ANY application as your X
desktop background.  however as i understand it, it is not
interactive, so if there is clicking going on this might not be a good
solution.  what would the fundamental difference between this and
keeping a web browser open to the page you want at all times?