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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Screen Savers from Pandora
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- References: <tnvueb4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Dec20.000321.27236@news.yale.edu>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 01:11:37 GMT
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- In <1992Dec20.000321.27236@news.yale.edu> dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth) writes:
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- | Dave Olson (olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com) wrote:
- | : In <1992Dec17.230942.16865@wdl.loral.com> nyden@wdl30.wdl.loral.com (William Nyden) writes:
- | : | Is it possible to incorporate a screen saver into Pandora so something
- | : | more interesting than a black screen is displayed when noone is using
- | : | a workstation? This is an Indigo.
- | : Yes, you need to edit /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xlogin (or change the
- | : resources so something other than Xlogin is run), and just
- | : before the part where pandora is started, start your favorite
- | : screensaver, with stdin, stdout, and stderr redirected to /dev/null, like:
- | : (/usr/bin/X11/xlock ... < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &)
- |
- | Neat! So here's a mystery: why does Pandora's colormap get scrambled when I
- | do this on our PI25 (GT, 4.0.5A), but not on our Indigo (R4K XS24Z, 4.0.5F)?
- | The Xservers and Xlogin files are identical.
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- Probably because there is only one hardware colormap on
- the PI. xlock has a mode to not change the colormap,
- as I recall. Pandora should be fixing up the colormap
- as required, but it doesn't (there is a bug on that).
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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