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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Subject: Re: Writing your own Screen Saver under X???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.104438.7596@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Keywords: screen saver
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <1992Jul20.142330.22230@panix.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 10:44:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.142330.22230@panix.com>, miner@panix.com (Ed Miner) writes:
-
- > 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?
-
- It is not possible to do it right without adding an extension to the
- server. I believe one exists by the name of xidle.
-
- Without such, you have to approximate it by selecting for events on
- other applications' windows and hoping you don't lose by missing
- ButtonPress events. It ain't pretty.
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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