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- From: stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf)
- Subject: Re: Writing your own Screen Saver under X???
- Keywords: screen saver
- References: <1992Jul20.142330.22230@panix.com>
- Originator: stumpf@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:30:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.083030.1911@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Jul20.142330.22230@panix.com>, miner@panix.com (Ed Miner) writes:
- |> Yes I am wondering if anyone can help me? I am trying to write my own
- |> screen saver under X to replace the blank screen that comes up. I know
- |> with xset , you can turn on the screen saver, so that a X logo will
- |> float around the screen. My question is how do you change this so that
- |> a program that I write will be displayed instead? Any ideas or hints
- |> will be helpful.
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- The answer is simple and maybe frustrating for you:
- You can't!
- At least you can't with the current implementation in the "standard" (MIT)
- server and using the "standard" (MIT) Xlib calls! Maybe a vendor has put it
- in his server code, but I don't know of one!
- But you're welcome to write a server extension. (There has been some
- discussion on this topic about one or two month ago, and someone said
- "maybe I'll write an extension", but I don't know what's going on ...
-
- Ciao
- \Maex
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- Markus Stumpf Markus.Stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
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