Subj : Re: v4.0
To   : Sinister x
From : Deuce
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 02:19 am

  Re: Re: v4.0
  By: Sinister x to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Sep 05 2005 06:21:00

 > Personally, I'd like to see a BBS software where someone makes a screensaver
 > (e.g. .scr in windows) that accesses the bbs structures. That would be a
 > pretty tight replacement to the standard WFC. I was thinking of doing this
 > for mystic, but I'm running it on Linux instead of Win32 (and won't have a
 > good OpenGL card on my linux box until tonight or whenever I get around to
 > handing down parts).

*blink* you want to use OpenGL to write a waiting for caller screen saver? 
Talk abut overkill!

For an XScreenSaver module, all you need is a program that will write to the
root window.  Should be fairly trivial to whip one up.

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