>> Also, in general, I agree that the pretty things going on while the
>> console is idle are best handled by screen savers. Opinions?
>> Perhaps it would be best to have an vty ioctl that means 'engage
>> screensaver immediately, which getty can send
>> when it starts up, depending on a gettytab setting. Alternately, we
>> could use an escape sequence instead, and set it up as the last
>> character sequence in gettytab's `lm' (login message) attribute.
> Have you look at "text" screen saver lkms in /usr/src/lkm/syscons?
> The screen saver lkm is called periodically from the console
> driver if there is no keyboard and mouse activities in the current
> vty. (Oh, you need to set timeout via vidcontrol too.) Isn't this
> interface enough for your graphical saver?
Yes, I am basing my work on that. The bit about the new escape means
just not sitting around at a 'login' prompt until the screensaver
engages.
>> Well, enough of that, I've gotten in the mood to write a graphical
>> *SOMETHING* now, so I'll probably be submitting a graphical
>> screensaver RSN.
> Please keep me posted. I am interested in graphical screen savers!
I will post my discoveries and code to freebsd-hackers. Presently, I
am just having some difficulties debugging, since I seem to be having
a problem switching in and out of a vty running libvgl code; it causes
the display to go into an unusable state. Other than that, things
look alright.
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