It is trivially easy to add new display modes to xscreensaver: any program
which can be invoked in such a way that it draws on the root window of the
-screen can be used as a screensaver. You just change a resource setting --
+screen can be used as a screensaver. You just change a config file --
there's no need to recompile or reinstall anything.
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+Changes since 3.11: * Made it so that you can't scroll the screen while the
+ lock dialog is up (with XFree86 virtual viewports.)
+ * Fixed a bug in `flag' that caused bob's chin to get cut
+ off after a few iterations.
+Changes since 3.10: * Made `xjack' be black-on-white-ish, so that it looks
+ less like a computer screen and more like the
+ typewritten paper it's supposed to be.
+ * New version of `pulsar'.
+ * Fixed Solaris compilation problem in `phosphor'.
+ * Made xscreensaver notice XFree86's virtual root window
+ hack, so that if the X server's root window is larger
+ than the monitor's displayable resolution, the screen
+ saver will limit itself to the area that actually
+ appears on the screen.
+ * Made the xscreensaver daemon do a better job of
+ picking the visual class that should be used for GL
+ programs. Less user intervention should be needed
+ now: you can use the logical visual name `GL' instead
+ of having to figure out by hand which one to use.
+ * Oops, the visual was defaulting to "best" instead of
+ "default", because the .xscreensaver file was not being
+ loaded quite early enough.
+ * Made configure figure out how to build icmp ping
+ support into the `sonar' hack automatically.
+ * Made warnings about not being able to read shadow
+ passwords not be printed if compiled with PAM support.
+ * Improved PAM startup diagnostics.
+ * Worked around the Solaris PAM bug that was causing
+ crashes there, so now PAM is turned on by default.
+ * Made configure detect the number of arguments that
+ pam_strerror() takes, since on Linux, this apparently
+ changed between 2.0 and 2.2, sigh.
+ * Made the /proc/interrupts kludge look for "PS/2 Mouse"
+ as well as "keyboard".
+ * Made xscreensaver notice when there has been a sudden
+ large jump in wall-clock time, and if so, lock right
+ away, instead of waiting for "lockTimeout" to expire
+ first. (Laptops need this for safer recovery from
+ ``hibernation.'')
+ * Added `-throttle' option to `xscreensaver-command'.
Changes since 3.09: * Added `phosphor', `xmatrix', and `pulsar' hacks.
* Fixed a bug in the color allocator that sometimes
caused `starfish' to fall back to monochrome.
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