Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:28:26 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <199801251158.WAA00285@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:36:57 MDT." <199801130436.WAA02770@detlev.UUCP>
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> Okay, that seems to be the key messages of why this would be a good > idea. In general, I think that when *I personally* in a mood to > interact with a computer graphically, I'll use X. Does anybody else > have an opinion on this? I think the general consensus is with you there. > Also, in general, I agree that the pretty things going on while the > console is idle are best handled by screen savers. Opinions? Likewise. > Perhaps it would be best to have an vty ioctl that means 'engage > screensaver immediately, which getty can send > when it starts up, depending on a gettytab setting. Alternately, we > could use an escape sequence instead, and set it up as the last > character sequence in gettytab's `lm' (login message) attribute. Both of these sound like much more sensible ideas. > Well, enough of that, I've gotten in the mood to write a graphical > *SOMETHING* now, so I'll probably be submitting a graphical > screensaver RSN. OK, where is it? 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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