Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 02:30:21 -0700 From: Doug Beaver <dougb@scalar.org> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An interesting signature Message-ID: <19990706023021.A110@scalar.org> In-Reply-To: <19990706094916.C454@paert.tse-online.de>; from Andreas Braukmann on Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 09:49:16AM %2B0200 References: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/3.0.6.32.19990704104339.009bb4f0@mail.bfm.org> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990704213005.A439@marder-1> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990705233339.A80211@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <199907060018.TAA26467@free.pcs> <19990706094916.C454@paert.tse-online.de>
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On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 09:49:16AM +0200, Andreas Braukmann wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > >NAME > > > bsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator > > > > > >SYNOPSIS > > > bsod [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] > > > [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] > > > [-visual visual] [-delay seconds] > > I'm sorry, but your email must have gotten truncated, I didn't see > > the attached code that implements this. Can you please resend? :-) > ... it's just one of the kde's screensaver modules (or just modes). > Sorry for not having more precise information, ... but I just > 'pkg_deleted' the whole kde crap and switched back to my former > afterstep 1.0 setup ... Just in case people are trying to find this program, it does exist and is part of the XScreenSaver screensaver distribution which was created by Jamie Zawinski. It's url is http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ . The source to all the demos comes with xscreensaver, so if you wanted bsod to just display the Windows BSOD (and not the other ones), then it would probably be a simple patch to the source. BTW, xscreensaver is implemented in a way that allows any program which draws on the root window and understands virtual root windows to be ran when the screensaver activates, so it's easy to implement your own 'screensaver modules'. For example, xv(1) can draw on the root window, so it's possible to create slide shows that are activated when the screensaver turns on, which is what I did on my system. Doug -- "Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun." -- Mr. Burns To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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