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Glitchman
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 Posted: Thu 06 Oct 2005, 19:38 Post_subject:
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I recently copied some screensavers off of RedHat and decided to see if they would run under Puppy. Well, after setting their permissions to execute, I can launch them from rox, but they only open in a generic "X" window. This is the same behavior as when I attempted to launch them individually from inside RedHat (as opposed to using its built-in screen saver app, which gives me configurable options per screen saver.)
Anyway, where do I need to place these screensavers in Puppy? Is there a GUI or command line setting to get Puppy to see my screensavers instead of the dull default gray X screensaver? Is there something I need to edit in .fvwm95? If it matters, I'm using the live CD version 1.03 (due to too many quirks with recent versions.) Thanks in advance.
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Glitchman
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| Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2005, 00:07 Post_subject:
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BTW, one of the screensavers continuously spits out the following: | Quote: | | /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/fortune: No such file or directory |
Puppy does not appear to have an xscreensaver subdirectory. Creating that directory and copying screensavers there does not get me much further. Surely there must be a way to configure screensavers in Puppy. Perhaps if I could find the location of the default screensaver and replace it with one of mine...
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rarsa
Joined: 29 May 2005
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Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2005, 00:30 Post_subject:
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xscreensaver is an application.
If you want to use it, you will need to compile and install it.
Or ask someone to help you with that.
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MU
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
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| Posted: Fri 07 Oct 2005, 00:33 Post_subject:
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Just had a quick look.
I have the Xorg-Xserver installed, and tried to run xscreensaver from my Mandrake:
# ./xscreensaver
./xscreensaver: error while loading shared libraries: libpam.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# ./xscreensaver
./xscreensaver: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# ./xscreensaver
./xscreensaver: error while loading shared libraries: libdes425.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# ./xscreensaver
./xscreensaver: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb5.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# ./xscreensaver
./xscreensaver: error while loading shared libraries: libk5crypto.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is too bloated, I stop it now.
It would make more sense to do this maybe:
Pseudocode:
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include "xlib.h"
int main(){
int counter = 0;
while(1){ // endless loop)
usleep(1000); //(sleep 1 second)
int i1=Xgetevent(key);
int i2=getevent(mouse);
counter += 1000;
if (i1){ counter=0;}
if (i2){ counter=0;}
if (counter == 100000000){
execvp("/usr/bin/screensaver.sh");
counter=0;
}
}
}
main();
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So it would be a small C-program, that counts seconds until 10 minutes are reached, and executes a script then. The script could run whatever you want, a slideshow or my SDLBasic-PseudoScreensaver http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2493
If I have Time, I might try to write it this weekend in C.
Mark
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