I am seeing this too. if I run electricsheep on its own it appears fine in a window, if I pass it --root 1 I just see some flickering on the desktop, but no errors from it. When it is launched from gnome- screensaver I see this in ~/.xsession-errors:
(gnome-screensaver:12210): gnome-screensaver-WARNING **: Could not execute command for theme: electricsheep --root 1 With reference to the previous comment about xv, I tried running mpeg2dec_onroot with the x11 video out option and it didn't work either -- Recent changes seem to have broken electricsheep https://launchpad.net/bugs/5823 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs