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- From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
- Subject: Re: Screen Savers from Pandora
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:23:02 GMT
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- Dave Olson (olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com) wrote:
- : In <1992Dec20.000321.27236@news.yale.edu> dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth) writes:
- : | 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)
- : Probably because there is only one hardware colormap on the PI. xlock has
- : a mode to not change the colormap, as I recall.
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- Mmmm ... There's something called "colorcount" ... Is that it? If so, to what
- would one set it?
-
- : Pandora should be fixing up the colormap as required, but it doesn't
- : (there is a bug on that).
-
- Thanks for the info.
-
- Cheers,
-
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