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

2003-07-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:33, Jim C wrote: > Anyway, I remember way back when... I ran a screen saver as a background > for my desktop. It was especially cool. This was quite a long time ago... > I've long since fogotten how to do this but if anyone can give me some > tips I sure would apprecia

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

2003-07-22 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 14:33, Jim C wrote: > 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 wh

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

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Jim C wrote: > 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 logo

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

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Jim C wrote: > >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

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

2003-07-23 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 00:27, Jim C wrote: > > > > > >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 a

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

2003-07-23 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 00:27, Jim C wrote: > > > > > >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 th