X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=17a50260950a7adc0772f27f489a502891539256;hb=0cac953ce8d5139c1a264b417951ee15a3176b51;hp=3e2fa163f1fedab4a8db7b6c41014ec2e93f1b3b;hpb=258170f6204e23da06f272ffda1f4504b6ae2eaf;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/README b/README index 3e2fa163..17a50260 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ -See config.h for configuration parameters. To build, do the usual: +To build: - xmkmf ; make ; make install ; make install.man + - read the comments in `config.h' and edit it as appropriate + - xmkmf ; make + - make install install.man The xscreensaver program waits until the keyboard and mouse have been idle for a period, and then runs a graphics demo chosen at random. It turns off @@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ xautolock programs is the ease with which new graphics hacks can be installed: you don't need to recompile this program to add a new display mode, you just change some resource settings. Any program which can be invoked in such a way that it draws on the root window of the screen can -now be used as a screensaver without modification [*]. The programs that +now be used as a screensaver without modification. The programs that are being run as screensavers don't need to have any special knowledge about what it means to be a screensaver. @@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ window, which are pointed at by the screensaver's default resource settings. halo - Random circular patterns. pyro - Fireworks. Looks a lot like the version in xlock. hopalong - Fractals. I snarfed this code from xlock. + flame - Fractals. Also from xlock. noseguy - A guy with a big nose wanders around the screen saying things. I snarfed this code from xnlock. maze - This is the X maze demo modified to take a -root option @@ -68,17 +71,19 @@ Other reasonable things to use as screensavers, if you have them, are kaleid -root - qix-like kaleidescope patterns xfishtank -c black -d -r 1 - fish (use version 2.0 or later) -You can get all of these from export.lcs.mit.edu. If you know of (or write) -any other interesting programs that can be used as screensavers, please let -me know! +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 -[*] It may be necessary to include "vroot.h" in the program, but that would -be necessary for it to work with virtual-root window managers anyway. - - +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. +Changes since 1.18: Added `flame' hack. + Fixed a minor Motif dialog text field bug. + Fixed yet another XPointer-not-defined-in-R4 bug. Changes since 1.17: Added support for shadow password files. Fixed some Motif-related locking bugs. Added diagnostics when locking is disabled.