X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d9d3abf467de7c591f312bbedcc4a0731814b284;hb=8eb2873d7054e705c4e83f22d18c40946a9e2529;hp=cedca8ea16fb61670d3043972f03ae18a51960b7;hpb=585e1a6717d1dd9b90fbb53acaaae82106354d33;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/README b/README index cedca8ea..d9d3abf4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ The most important hint is probably this: To build on VMS, see README.VMS. -If you are upgrading from version 2.* to version 3.*, be sure to delete -your ~/.xscreensaver file first, if you have one. - If you think you've found a bug, please let me know! No bug report is too small. But first, please read the enclosed `README.debugging' file to find out what kind of information would be most helpful to include in your bug @@ -39,9 +36,9 @@ You can try out xscreensaver like so: xscreensaver & xscreensaver-demo -Note: unlike `xlock', xscreensaver has a client-server model: the -`xscreensaver' process is a daemon that runs in the background; it is -controlled by the foreground `xscreensaver-demo' program. +The XScreenSaver suite of applications uses a client-server model: +The `xscreensaver' program is a daemon that runs in the background; +it is controlled by the foreground `xscreensaver-demo' program. xscreensaver has an extensive manual -- please read it! @@ -71,6 +68,89 @@ http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/. ============ +Changes since 3.34: * Redesigned `xscreensaver-demo' GUI. + * Added three new modes of operation: `One Screen Saver', + `Blank Screen', and `Don't Blank' (in addition to the + historical `Random Screen Saver'). + * Configure now defaults to installing the hacks in + /lib/xscreensaver/ instead of /bin/. + (Most distros already did it this way.) + * New GL hacks, `menger', `engine', `flipscreen3d'. + * Made `sierpinski3d' be more colorful. + * New versions of `xmatrix' and `nerverot'. + * Fixed a bug in `starwars' that made the font be drawn + with thin lines in -root mode. + * Fixed a bad colormap bug in `crystal' that could make + *subsequent* hacks malfunction! + * Made `gflux' able to grab screen images (`-mode grab'). + * Updated `webcollage' for recent search engine changes. + * Removed most command-line options to `xscreensaver': + just edit the ~/.xscreensaver file instead. + * Improved behavior on multi-screen and Xinerama systems: + the mouse now stays on the screen where the user left + it, and the password and splash dialogs always appear + on the screen that has the mouse. + * Made the splash dialog use more Gtk-like colors; + made it have only two buttons, "Settings" and "Help". + * Made `sonar' understand `.ssh/known_hosts2' format + files, and be better about stripping out illegal + addresses. +Changes since 3.33: * Turned `memoryLimit' off by default, sigh. Apparently + some versions of the GL libraries (appear to) allocate + hundreds of megs for every GL program, so `memoryLimit' + was causing GL programs to malfunction or crash on + those systems. + * Improved fading on TrueColor XFree86 4.1.x systems. + * New GL hack, `circuit'. + * Added `fuzz' mode to `decayscreen'. + * New version of `whirlygig'. + * Added links to `xplanet' and `sphereEversion'. + * Fixed rare race condition that could make `sonar' hang. + * Fixed potential crash in `speedmine'. + * Made `xscreensaver-demo' not crash when imageDirectory + was set to a non-existent directory. + * Made `xscreensaver-getimage-video' invoke XawTV's + `streamer' program better. + * Made `phosphor' and `starwars' deal with CR, LF, + or CRLF line endings. + * Changes for Cygwin compilation environments. + * Made `sonar' compile on systems that can't ping. + * Configure changes for HPUX 10.20. + * Made PAM code work on Red Had 4.2 systems. + * Made `xscreensaver-command -deactivate' work when the + saver is not active: what that does is reset the idle + timer, as if keyboard input had been detected. This + was added for the benefit of people writing DVD-playing + software: they can now prevent the screensaver from + kicking in by sending a -deactivate message once a + minute while the movie is playing and not paused. + * Various minor portability tweaks. +Changes since 3.32: * New hacks, `speedmine' and `whirlygig'. + * Sped up `pyro', made the explosions look a bit better. + * Added better stars to `glplanet' and `starwars'. + * Many internal changes to `webcollage'. + * Some new options to `attraction'. + * Minor fix to `noseguy' to avoid un-erased pixels. + * Rewrote the screen-eraser effects so that they complete + in the same amount of time regardless of how slow + your X server is (some of them were glacial on servers + with slow blitting.) + * Fixed a potential free memory reference that could + sometimes cause a crash at startup. + * Possibly fixed a problem that could cause the daemon + to crash with an X error. I was never able to + reproduce this problem, but I think I might have + figured out what caused it. + * Worked around a problem that caused PAM authentication + to fail on some Red Hat 7.x systems. + * Added a `memoryLimit' parameter that controls the + amount of memory a graphics hack may allocate: if they + try to allocate more than this, malloc() will fail + (and they will exit or (safely) crash, rather than + hogging memory.) Default is 50M. + * Made `gnome-help-browser' be the default way to display + man pages in `xscreensaver-demo', if running on a + GNOME system. Changes since 3.31: * The image-manipulating hacks (`slidescreen', etc.) can now operate on randomly chosen image files from disk, or on frames captured from the system's video input, @@ -834,3 +914,12 @@ Changes since 1.13: * Added `orbit' option to `attraction' hack. Changes since 1.8: * Added demo mode, and locking. * Added `maze' hack. * Added `norotate' option to `rocks' hack. +Changes since 1.4: * Works when run from XDM before anyone logs in. + * Sped up `imsmap'. + * Can use `xv' as a slideshow without using up colormap + entries while the screen is not blanked. + * Fixed a BadDrawable error in non-XIdle mode. + * Added `blitspin' and `imsmap'. +Changes since 1.0: * Current list of included hacks is now: qix, helix, + rorschach, attraction, greynetic, rocks, pyro, + hopalong, and noseguy.