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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:34:00 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: screen savers
Message-ID:  <199511202334.QAA02385@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511201222.MAA06327@tombstone.sunrem.com> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Nov 20, 95 12:22:35 pm

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> I was just wondering if anybody has coded up any more interesting screen
> savers than those that exist now.  Toys are fun :)  If not, where is the
> source for the existing savers, so one could hack up a few more screen
> savers, perhaps a random one too (the code would show what to hook into).
> 
> And on the side, i'm assuming it is because of how the X server takes over
> the monitor that the screen saver does not appear when in X-Windows (instead
> it just blanks the screen...)

THere was a post in one of the Linux groups of someone who coded up
something that uses the "AfterDark" data files.  It was a good 6-8
months ago, so it's on tape if I saved it.  8-(.

He calimed to have the "Spock/Horta" saver running on Linux.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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