From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 15:35:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA24127 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:35:33 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA24105 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 15:35:16 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA02385; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:34:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511202334.QAA02385@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: screen savers To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:34:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511201222.MAA06327@tombstone.sunrem.com> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Nov 20, 95 12:22:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 876 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.