Prank - Change the desktop background

This is the oldest and still the funniest prank. You just have to take screen shot of the Desktop (exclude mouse pointer). Then place it as the Desktop background and delete some of the Desktop icons. Even though the icons are deleted their imprint on the background is still there which will look exactly same as before. So, when our victim tries to click on them he is going to freak out as nothing will happen .

When I played this trick on a friend, I even removed the panels so the guy thought that his system has hanged and kept on rebooting(  Devilish, isn't  ).

Following are the 4 screenshots showing a small demo of this prank.


 

2 Comments

Anon Linuxer (not verified)
December 3rd, 2009 11:55 am
This won't work very well if the user is using a windowing manager that does not have a desktop and panel but relies on clicking on the desktop itself to get a menu like window maker or twm. What can you do? Install Nautilus (or something else that intercepts clicks to the root window) and put it in the startup?
Wmaker lover (not verified)
February 12th, 2010 04:07 pm
Love WindowMaker. Faster than KDE and the only things you can delete are the docked icons and the workspace scroller square. Or wreck the menu into oblivion, which would be a vicious thing to do!
If someone did this on KDE, though, I would become suspicious very quickly. The second the icons didn't move after a stray mouse drag... Besides, some people rely on a terminal simply waaay too much ;)

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