Hans Reiser writes: > Oleg Drokin wrote: > > >Hello! > > > >On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > > > > > >>If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks > >>a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that > >>would be nicest of all. > >> > >> > > > >BTW, I just thought about it again and the screensaver code is here already > >;) > >There is screensaver that displays random fortunes (executes fortune(6)). > >Create fortune's database consisting of credits information and you are > >done. > >Also lots of systems execute fortune at login time. > >Insert credits database in the list of default databases (or run fortune -a) > >and you will get credits info for random stuff from time to time ;) > >Now we need to convice all the distromakers and create a way in > >which programs being installed add their credits to the common database. > > > >Bye, > > Oleg > > > > > > > > > Would debian be willing to do this as the default screensaver? I think > it would be great if it did..... >
You also may want to take a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor, man 1 phosphor. > -- > Hans > > Nikita.