I have tried running mplayer -rootwin in KDE but it doesnt work. It doesnt work in GNOME also but in icewm it works perfectly. This has been tried on SuSE 8.0,8.1,8.2 and redhat 8.0,9.0 with KDE versions which comes with distro. But on one RH8.0 machine i compiled KDE 3.1 and it worked. What can be the problem.
I have read somewhere for some old version of KDE to go to desktop prefrences and aloow applications to change wallpaper will enable mplayer -rootwin but in KDE 3.0/3.1 i was not able to find any such option.
Nilesh.