Want a more exciting UI? Turn your desktop into a screen saver with the simple steps below.

1. Goto Spotlight (magnifying glass top right of your screen).

2. Type ‘Terminal’ in the line and hit enter.

3.  From your new terminal window type the following:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/
ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

4. Hit and enter and look at your desktop.

Sadly this isn’t a lasting change and on every restart you would have to re-enter the code to keep the screen saver back there. You probably don’t want it running constantly anyway – it can tend to eat a lot of memory.

5 Responses to “Turn Desktop into Screen Saver”

  1. THEMODERGUY says:
    February 5, 2011 at 4:04 am

    You can go in terminal preferences and set it to open the script when you open terminal then add terminal to the start up Que. so it runs /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background when start up ps. set it to hide

  2. Judo says:
    March 5, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    How do i set it to run right when i startup?

  3. bob says:
    April 14, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    i cant do it i dont have terminal on my mac :(

  4. Curly says:
    April 18, 2011 at 8:08 am

    well, mine didnt work. like when i typed terminal in spotlight and hit enter what it did was give me the thesaurus in dictionary.

  5. sergyu says:
    June 27, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    it works pretty good and i like it ! i work on a iMac 27″ 2011

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