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Article #41Re: Screen Savers from Pandora
From: Dave Schweisguth
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:03
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:03
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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. Puzzled, -- | Dave Schweisguth Yale MB&B & Chemistry Net: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu | | Lab phone: 203-432-5208 Fax: 203-432-6144 Home phone: 203-624-3866 | | For complying with the NJ Right To Know Act: Contents partially unknown. |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!news.yale.edu!neutron!dcs From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth) Subject: Re: Screen Savers from Pandora Message-ID: <1992Dec20.000321.27236@news.yale.edu> Sender: news@news.yale.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: neutron.chem.yale.edu Organization: Yale University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <tnvueb4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:03:21 GMT Lines: 21