Re: Future Idea (waywayway future)

["Ben FrantzDale" <bfrantzdale Thuban AC hmc edu>]

>...
> /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/xmatrix -root
>
> On other distributions, YMMV.
>
> Stick this command somewhere that will get executed automatically on
> login - in a .xinitrc or .xsession script (if you have one), or in the
> gnome startup list (Foot Menu->Settings->Session->Startup programs), and
> you've got yourself an animated background. You may also want to add
> some extra flags to slow the xmatrix simulation down a little, depending
> on how many clock cycles you have to burn. Run xmatrix --help to find
> out the full set of options.

I'd recomend:

nice -n 19 /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/xmatrix -root

This will give it very low priority and really bearly slow down anything
else at all.

The effect is really cool. Thanks for bringing it up. I'd heard it could be
done but hadn't tried it :-)

--Ben