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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)?
| The Xservers and Xlogin files are identical.

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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