To build on VMS, see README.VMS.
-If you are upgrading, you might want to delete your ~/.xscreensaver file.
-If you don't, you might not see the new graphics modes. If you are upgrading
-from version 2.* to version 3.*, definitely do delete your .xscreensaver file.
+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
about these: they are just programs that draw on the root window.
More than 120 such programs are included. For details, see the xscreensaver
-web page, or the enclosed manual pages. There are also some helpful hints
-on customization in the xscreensaver app-defaults file (normally installed
-in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver.)
+web page, or the enclosed manual pages.
The latest version of xscreensaver is always available on the web at
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/.
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+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 `glplanet' 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,
+ instead of (or in addition to) manipulating images of
+ the desktop.
+ * Rewrote `vidwhacker' to use the new image-grabbing
+ mechanism.
+ * Made fading work on TrueColor XFree86 4.x systems.
+ * Fixed a subtle rendering bug in `atlantis' (the fish
+ were inside out!)
+ * Made `atlantis' have a texture simulating light
+ reflections from the surface of the ocean.
+ * Fixed up label placement in `molecule'.
+ * Better color bars in `xteevee'.
+ * Made `install-strip' not try to strip scripts.
+Changes since 3.30: * Put in more sensible defaults for DPMS, and updated
+ the documentation to reflect the fact that all your
+ DPMS settings are now belong to xscreensaver.
+ * Fixed the `xscreensaver.spec' file so that `--force'
+ is no longer needed.
+ * New versions of `rotzoomer' and `nerverot'.
+ * Fixed an OSF/1 compilation problem in `molecule'.
Changes since 3.29: * New hacks, `molecule' `dangerball', and `rotzoomer'.
* New version of `gflux'.
* Made `gltext' able to display the current time.
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