From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 25 04:05:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03876 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 04:05:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp5.portal.net.au [202.12.71.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA03867 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 04:05:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00285; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:28:27 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801251158.WAA00285@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: joelh@gnu.org cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:36:57 MDT." <199801130436.WAA02770@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:28:26 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. \\