Re: [MLUG] bragging about a screensaver

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yes, these are written in C.  What I did is to get the existing
xlock program, look at the code for another of the modes, copy
it across, and then make the appropriate changes.  The program
already does a lot for you - setting up the window, etc.
I knew next to nothing about X programming before I started, and
learned most of it by reading other modes.

Also, I found the xlock community very helpful it teaching me
things.  David Bagley (the maintainer of xlock) was very nice.

Let me say some more.  The original mode I wrote was the simulation
of 2D fluids.  I wrote it in OpenGL, because that was the only
graphics programming I knew.  I submitted this stand alone program
to the xlock community, more as a concept than anything else.  They
helped me rewrite it without OpenGL, and now it is a part of xlock.

Michael wrote:
> 
> Are these written in C? Any suggested guides to how to write an X
> screensaver? I don't really use screensavers but I do like to waste power
> by running nifty screensavers as my root window on powerful boxes with
> nothing else to do. :)
> 

.... as per J King's advice the rest is snipped.

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