are being run as screensavers don't need to have any special knowledge
about what it means to be a screensaver.
-The XIdle extension will be used if you have it (win win.)
+The XIDLE, MIT-SCREEN-SAVER, and/or SGI SCREEN_SAVER server extensions
+will be used if you have them.
Unfortunately, locking doesn't work if you don't have Motif.
qix - My own implementation of this, with many more options
than you would have thought qix could have.
helix - Generates spirally "stringart" patterns.
+ pedal - Draws a different kind of spirally pattern.
rorschach - Random inkblot patterns.
attraction - A bouncing ball demo, or a qix-like demo, or a wild
color-cycling thing, with some odd rules.
things. I snarfed this code from xnlock.
maze - This is the X maze demo modified to take a -root option
so that it works with xscreensaver.
+ lmorph - morphing line drawings.
+ bubbles - condensation forms on your monitor, then pops.
All of these will pop up their own window unless given that -root option.
See their man pages for more details.
xswarm -r 2>&- - swimming sperm
xwave -root - random 3d graphs
xbouncebits - bounce arbitrary bitmaps around
- ico -r - it's dull, but it's there
+ ico -r -p8 -faces -sleep 1 - it's dull, but it's there
xv -root file.gif -quit - they don't all have to animate!
xsplinefun - bouncing splines
kaleid -root - qix-like kaleidescope patterns
xfishtank -c black -d -r 1 - fish (use version 2.0 or later)
+ xtacy -root - various eye candy
You can get all of these from the contrib directory on ftp.x.org. If you
know of (or write) any other interesting programs that can be used as
screensavers, please let me know!
- -- Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
+The latest version of xscreensaver is always ftpable from ftp.x.org. You can
+also get it from my web page at http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/.
+
+ -- Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
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+Changes since 1.26: Added support for SGI SCREEN_SAVER extension.
+ Made `fade' and `unfade' work on 8-bit SGIs.
+ Made the dialog boxes more Motify.
+ Added `bubbles' hack.
+Changes since 1.25: Added `lmorph' hack.
+ Added viscosity and mouse-control to attraction.
+ Fixed possible bad color choices in qix and attraction.
+ Added ramp-mode to halo.
+ Added a new RNG, which is faster and more portable
+ than using the RNG in libc.
+ Made locking work on SCO.
+ Various other minor tweaks that I don't remember.
+Changes since 1.24: Made it capture the stdout/stderr of its subprocesses
+ and present them on the screensaver window itself.
+ Made demo mode work correctly with non-default visuals
+ and color maps, instead of always using the defaults.
+ Added -visual argument to all included screenhacks.
+ Support for the R6 MIT-SCREEN-SAVER server extension.
+ Made the demo mode list scroll properly.
+ Added `pedal' hack.
+Changes since 1.23: Fixed some private-colormap oddities in slidescreen,
+ decayscreen, and xroger. Fixed apparent conservation-
+ of-mass problem in pyro; made the shrapnel round.
+Changes since 1.22: Minor tweaks for IRIX5; fixed locking race condition.
+Changes since 1.21: Minor tweaks for X11R6.
+ Fixes for non-default visuals.
Changes since 1.20: Fixed bug in color blitspin; added default image.
Added diagnostics to noseguy. Fixed off-by-one
error in flame. Added some missing casts.
Moved the hacks into their own directory.
Made all `time' parameters accept the 00:00:00 syntax,
so that even the parameters which are normally read as
- `minutes' can be specified in seconds.
+ minutes can be specified in seconds.
Added colormap cycling to `imsmap'.
Made hyper work with K&R compilers.
Changes since 1.13: Added `orbit' option to `attraction' hack.
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