Intro Trying to have xscreensaver load my images, I am getting error: xscreensaver-getimage: file does not exist: "~/wallpapers/angels-phonebox.png" No amount of changing file names, user permissions, etc seems to be effecting this. However, it is obviously seeing that that image (and the others in the directory) ARE there; they should be working. Answer: don’t use a tilde ~ in your file path Local is already presumed, so just setting wallpapers as the directory, rather than “~/wallpapers”, did the trick.