On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:18:12AM +0200, Offer Kaye wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:33:37 +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > During the last few months, I noticed that the first thing, which people > > notice about my Linux installations, is the screensaver. > > > > Which one/s do you use?
bsod -linux ... > > > Turns out that Linux provides much richer repertoire of screensavers > > than MS-Windows. > > > > By default, yes, but there are many companies providing screen-savers > and backgrounds for free and for pay only for Windows, so alas it is > ahead there. One such site is webshots.com, which is about the only > thing apart from games that I miss from my Windows partition. I searched for "photo of the day", and came up with a couple of sites. How about the following daily cron (untested): wget http://www.steves-digicam/dpotd/`date +'%b%Y/%m%d%Y.jpg'` -O$HOME/snapshot.jpg \ && xsetbg -display :0 $HOME/snapshot.jpg As the basic idea is so simple, I'm sure some people have already packaged sothing similar. The infrastructure is there. Frankly the idea of downloading executables from the web daily sounds like bad idea. FWIW, xscreensavers uses the same concept of screen savers that are simply executables. But noone encourges you to download new ones from untrusted sources. xlockmore does not have separate executables, but doesn't seem to provide any way of adding new savers wthout rebuilding the binary. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
