From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 18 21:52:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11699 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA11691 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 04:52:49 GMT (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-242.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.242]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA49926; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 04:52:30 GMT Message-ID: <353982F0.DE8D3AA0@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:52:00 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson CC: Joey Garcia , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas and Stuff (Promoting) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > desktop theme :P. Actually, it would be nice to have a .tgz file > somewhere which has FreeBSD wallpaper, various icons, a cute > spinning-Beastie screen saver in 3d and so on. We've already got something that blows Winblows out of the water. X-Windows root window, what MS fools call the backdrop, is actually capable of running programs on the fly. Do the following from an Xterm: $ xscreensaver -timeout 3 & $ bubbles -3D -root & $ galaxy & You might not have enough colors in your video, but you'll get the idea. ANy of the programs that xscreensaver runs can be run in the root window or in a window, and you'll be pleasantly surprised how many things a lowly Pentium with 32MB can run. Try starting a 'top' program window, and observe what's using up CPU time and memory as you start and kill PID's. I don't think I've seen a spinning logo, but I did hear rumors of a rippling JKH... The icons and stuff already exist in the -ports collection, I'm not sure where it puts them when you install it. > ---- > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ TIS? Can you tell me what's going to happen to the availability of the fwtk code from now on? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message