How can I display a web page as my Gnome screensaver?

Question

We'd like to change our screensavers to show the current status of our service at a glance. We already have a page that shows uptime, build status, and more as large red and green squares, and that page refreshes automatically.

We're all running Gnome. How can we make that page our screensaver?

Answer 1

try cutycap, a webkit based 'www-snapshoter':

CutyCapt is a small cross-platform command-line utility to capture WebKit's rendering of a web page into a variety of vector and bitmap formats, including SVG, PDF, PS, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP. See IECapt for a similar tool based on Internet Explorer.

then setup your screensaver application to pick up the snapshotted website pictures.