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- From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
- Subject: Re: Writing your own Screen Saver under X???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.113625.27639@fwi.uva.nl>
- Keywords: screen saver
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- References: <1992Jul20.142330.22230@panix.com> <1992Jul21.083030.1911@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:36:25 GMT
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- stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) writes:
-
- >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
-
- >The answer is simple and maybe frustrating for you:
- >You can't!
-
- I'm no Xpert, but I think you can.
- Recently, someone posted 'xautolock' to comp.sources.x , of which I'll
- enclose the forst few lines of its manual:
-
- NAME
- xautolock - locks X display after a period of inactivity
-
- SYNOPSIS
- xautolock [-help] [-version] [-time minutes] [-locker
- locker]
- [-notify margin] [-bell percent] [-corners xxxx]
- [-cornerdelay secs] [-cornersize pixels]
- [-noclose]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- When xautolock is started, it monitors the user activity on
- the workstation. When no activity is detected within minutes
- minutes, the screen is automatically locked, using the
- screen locker specified with the -locker option. xautolock
- is capable of managing multiheaded displays.
-
- And indeed, it does...
-
- So, if you 'xautolock -locker "xlock -mode blank -nolock"', you have another
- screensaver.
-
- Marcel.
- --
- X Marcel Wijkstra AIO (wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl)
- |X| Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
- X University of Amsterdam The Netherlands
- ======Life stinks. Fortunately, I've got a cold.========
-