Hm, it seemed to me seti was slowing down my weathered 486 even when niced
to the hilt. Guess I was wrong. Thanks for the tip.
Xscreensaver, nota bene, seems to do what I want, barring unforeseen
events like compiling a kernel while having a coffee. Ah well
chris
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Joey Hess
Krzys Majewski wrote:
Hm, it seemed to me seti was slowing down my weathered 486 even when niced
to the hilt.
Perhaps it's eating up to much memory?
--
see shy jo
Krzys Majewski wrote:
I did that a few months ago, but it did not come with a screen-saver
option. What I did now is download the xseti tarball and the
xscreensaver package, together they do the job (although they do more
than what I wanted, which is just to have setiathome run
What about using the `setiathome' package?
# apt-get install setiathome
Chris
setiathome
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone know of a way to run an arbitrary program as the screensaver?
Two applications that have come to mind are setiathome and something like
acidwarp. I'm
I run setiathome all the time and not just as a screen saver.
just run the console version and rederect the output to /dev/null
setiathome /dev/null 2 /dev/null
and then set the nice to 19
renice seti pid 19
and forget about it.
Bill Warner
Christophe Broult wrote:
What about
If you use xscreensaver you can simply get it to run a program by including a
line in
your .xscreensaver file. Fir example, I get it to run qiv to cycle over a set
of
images via:
more ~/.xscreensaver
programs: \
/usr/bin/X11/qiv -sfid 2.5 ~/Slideshows/almworkshop/* \n
cheers
I did that a few months ago, but it did not come with a screen-saver
option. What I did now is download the xseti tarball and the
xscreensaver package, together they do the job (although they do more
than what I wanted, which is just to have setiathome run in the bg
when the screen
Anyone know of a way to run an arbitrary program as the screensaver?
Two applications that have come to mind are setiathome and something like
acidwarp. I'm really more interested in the first. In fact, I see no
other practical way to run setiathome on a typical home machine.
-chris
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