[opensuse] How to configure the text displayed in the StarWars screen saver?
I recall in a previous version of Suse I could control the text to display in the StarWars screen saver. (I have a file with the intros to all six movies.) Can't seem to figure out how to do it now. The screen saver config for KDE doesn't appear to have any visible means of specifying a file or pasting text. It is kinda boring looking at the hostname, OS version and uptime. I searched several ways on Google and the KDE web sites and I can't find anything about this. I have openSuse 10.2 installed from DVD. I'm trying to configure the Starwars screen saver using the KDE desktop config/KXSConfig. Thanks, Ken. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:31, Ken Jennings wrote:
I recall in a previous version of Suse I could control the text to display in the StarWars screen saver. (I have a file with the intros to all six movies.) Can't seem to figure out how to do it now. 1) Enter the Control Center suse-->control center 2) Appearance & Themes, Screen Saver, Banners & Pictures, StarWars 3) click Setup 4) enter the file name in the Text Program field If you click the button to the right you can select the file from a dialog The field can accept a program, a file name, or a URL... this is configurable from the Advanced tab. 5) test and apply
Have lots of fun! -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:24, M Harris wrote:
1) Enter the Control Center suse-->control center 2) Appearance & Themes, Screen Saver, Banners & Pictures, StarWars 3) click Setup 4) enter the file name in the Text Program field If you click the button to the right you can select the file from a dialog The field can accept a program, a file name, or a URL... this is configurable from the Advanced tab. 5) test and apply ... and if that doesn't work,
... remember that everything in linux is a file. The StarWars screensaver is configured for xscreensaver in: /etc/xscreensaver/starwars.xml This is just a text file... edit it to your hearts content with your favorite editor... if you're a real man you'll use vi , otherwise you'll use whatever whimpy editor you like... joe... emacs... ;-P -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 10 May 2007, M Harris wrote:
if you're a real man you'll use vi , otherwise you'll use whatever whimpy editor you like... joe... emacs... ;-P
i just gotta bite at this one ...# # Dont you mean " Virtually Impossible" -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha2. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 2007-05-10 02:37, M Harris wrote:
On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:24, M Harris wrote:
1) Enter the Control Center suse-->control center 2) Appearance & Themes, Screen Saver, Banners & Pictures, StarWars 3) click Setup 4) enter the file name in the Text Program field If you click the button to the right you can select the file from a dialog The field can accept a program, a file name, or a URL... this is configurable from the Advanced tab. 5) test and apply
... and if that doesn't work,
... remember that everything in linux is a file. The StarWars screensaver is configured for xscreensaver in:
/etc/xscreensaver/starwars.xml
Thanks! If I had only know where it was...
This is just a text file... edit it to your hearts content with your favorite editor... if you're a real man you'll use vi , otherwise you'll use whatever whimpy editor you like... joe... emacs... ;-P
You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ? It appears this XML file just controls the configuration of the screen saver setup dialog itself, not the actual screen saver. This is curious: The Text Program control is commented out in the XML file: <!-- <file id="program" _label="Text Program" arg="-program %"/> --> That explains why the control isn't there. I didn't screw with it, so why is it commented out? I uncommented it and now the widget appears on the setup dialog. The screen blanker wouldn't work with just the name of the text file. The message scrolled by indicates the shell tried and failed to execute the file. So, entering " cat nameofmyfile " instead works fine. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ?
Thank the various gods for that!!! This quote about vi about sums it up: ----- I thought it was the stupidest, most perverse and irritating thing imaginable. I couldn't believe that people sat down to write a text editor and came up with this. ---- Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/a7601dc8c9af9d7d I've tried using vi off and on for at least 15 years. It is the single most infuriating and annoying piece of software ever written... well, except for MS Windows. You really have to wonder what the developers of this masochistic editor were smoking when they sat down and designed vi. Every time I have to use that horrible little editor, I learn at least 4 new swear words and have to go lay down for a while to recover. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clayton wrote:
You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ?
Thank the various gods for that!!!
This quote about vi about sums it up: ----- I thought it was the stupidest, most perverse and irritating thing imaginable. I couldn't believe that people sat down to write a text editor and came up with this. ---- Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/a7601dc8c9af9d7d
I've tried using vi off and on for at least 15 years. It is the single most infuriating and annoying piece of software ever written... well, except for MS Windows. You really have to wonder what the developers of this masochistic editor were smoking when they sat down and designed vi. Every time I have to use that horrible little editor, I learn at least 4 new swear words and have to go lay down for a while to recover.
C.
I loath vi, but it was developed at a time when people connected with dumb terminals connected at 300bps or less where terse keyboard commands were vital and it did its job at that time. I have been working with various systems a decade longer, have actually used such things and believe me when the text crawls up the screen slower than one would normally write you do not want the full text windowing thing. Having said that I do think too many are little nostalgic about including outdated tools in base *NIX distributions and some like vi should be consigned to the dustbin of history. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQwf4asN0sSnLmgIRAusYAKDitXqtPo1wzXnPEb/tHvlsWHJFpwCglDbl HS7oPSPqTkjJxn2tn1ft9ss= =RTx1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote:
You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ?
Thank the various gods for that!!!
This quote about vi about sums it up: ----- I thought it was the stupidest, most perverse and irritating thing imaginable. I couldn't believe that people sat down to write a text editor and came up with this. ---- Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/a7601dc8c9af9d7d
I've tried using vi off and on for at least 15 years. It is the single most infuriating and annoying piece of software ever written... well, except for MS Windows. You really have to wonder what the developers of this masochistic editor were smoking when they sat down and designed vi. Every time I have to use that horrible little editor, I learn at least 4 new swear words and have to go lay down for a while to recover.
C.
There is one even more infuriating piece of editor ware anyone remember "Edlin" ye gads .. no that even makes "vi" look good -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha2. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
peter nikolic wrote:
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote:
You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ? Thank the various gods for that!!!
This quote about vi about sums it up: ----- I thought it was the stupidest, most perverse and irritating thing imaginable. I couldn't believe that people sat down to write a text editor and came up with this. ---- Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/a7601dc8c9af9d7d
I've tried using vi off and on for at least 15 years. It is the single most infuriating and annoying piece of software ever written... well, except for MS Windows. You really have to wonder what the developers of this masochistic editor were smoking when they sat down and designed vi. Every time I have to use that horrible little editor, I learn at least 4 new swear words and have to go lay down for a while to recover.
Having used several screen-oriented editors, on various operating systems even, I have yet to use anything with the power:ease of use ratio that vi has. While emacs is more powerful, it's...maddening to learn. By comparison, I've also used se (and old BSD Screen Editor complete with a "hint" bar on the bottom of the screen), and the ubiquitous XEDIT on IBMs, plus the various offerings on computers in the 8- and 16-bit microcomputer eras....
C.
There is one even more infuriating piece of editor ware anyone remember "Edlin" ye gads .. no that even makes "vi" look good
or "ed" which is still found on all Unix and Linux systems (mainly because there are some programs that use it in a sort of batch mode) (google for ed-is-the-one-true-editor :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 10 May 2007 13:35, peter nikolic wrote:
There is one even more infuriating piece of editor ware anyone remember "Edlin" ye gads .. no that even makes "vi" look good I still remember the days when we had to use:
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On Thursday 2007-05-10 02:24, M Harris wrote:
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:31, Ken Jennings wrote:
I recall in a previous version of Suse I could control the text to display in the StarWars screen saver. (I have a file with the intros to all six movies.) Can't seem to figure out how to do it now.
1) Enter the Control Center suse-->control center 2) Appearance & Themes, Screen Saver, Banners & Pictures, StarWars 3) click Setup 4) enter the file name in the Text Program field If you click the button to the right you can select the file from a dialog The field can accept a program, a file name, or a URL... this is configurable from the Advanced tab.
If it were that easy I wouldn't have been asking. There is no "Text Program" widget control on that dialog. I resized it too, in case it was a layout issue. There is no Advanced Tab either. There is an "Advanced Options" on the main screen saver control panel dialog which only controls the screen locking and priority for the blankers. http://www.kenjennings.cc/pic/swconfig.png (284K)
5) test and apply
Have lots of fun!
Still working on that part. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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