Re: [expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candy thoughts

2003-07-23 Thread Jim C
You'll need libpng3-devel, ImageMagick-devel, XFree86-devel, IIRC ... it shouldn't need too much else. If you already have xplanet-1.0.1 on that box, uninstall it before installing the RPM that this will produce. Then get my scripts and run the install.sh script. Make sure you have wget. :)

[expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candy thoughts

2003-07-22 Thread Jim C
Thing is that if you are running Linux as a kioske sort of thing you want some nice eye catching candy. You might be marketing a desktop PC with preinstalled Linux in your shop, for example. So what about finding a way to run a screensaver while the logon screen is up, for example, or

Re: [expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candy thoughts

2003-07-22 Thread Jim C
Thing is that if you are running Linux as a kioske sort of thing you ... Jim, Haven't done it. Except for the default entry of kworldclock but in the kcontrol -- look n feel -- backgrounds on the first tab (labeled background) in the mode button the 3rd item is Background program. This

Re: [expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candy thoughts

2003-07-22 Thread Jim C
Caveat: If you're running MDK 9.1, the Xplanet version in the 9.1 contribs (v1.0.1) will not work with my script system; rebuild the .src RPM for MDK 9.0 (v0.94) on the 9.1 system instead, and they should work well. I am running on the texstar KDE 3.1.2 rpms. Want to buy your Pack or