On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I'll add to this -- what would be a nice toy project --
> a shell (perl?) script that starts setiathome and the X display as a
> screen saver.
> Then, it reads the powersave interval (when the screen turns off), and
> kills the X display (since it really just eats up CPU and makes setiathome
> run slower). Then in either state, if the user touches anything, it
> kills setiathome (which is fully restartable and restarts where it left
> off next time).
>
Hmm...have you LOOKED at the xsetiathome documentation? I
glanced at it and seem to recall that there was an option
to use it as a screensaver. Ok. I just went and looked at
the "README.xsetiathome" file. Here's the relevant portion:
===============
DESCRIPTION
xsetiathome is a graphical display for setiathome.
To use xsetiathome, you must run setiathome with the -graphics flag.
A typical invocation of xsetiathome will look like this:
> setiathome -graphics &
> xsetiathome
Alternatively, xsetiathome can be executed in screensaver mode,
which requires an external application such as xautolock.
===============
Ok. There you go. I don't know what xautolock is, but that
should at least get you started.
John
