Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[MU]

Screenshot:
see attachment


The "real" xscreensaver consists of thousands of lines of code.
You can get it here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=248308

And here is another one:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23909

PuppyBasic-Screensaver consists just of some lines, less than 100.

Why?
X is a complex system.
You have multiple Desktops, Remote-access functionality, Support for 2 and more Monitors and more.

If you want to keep account of all of that, a screensaver gets quite huge.


So PuppyBasic-Screensaver is NOT a replacement for xscreensaver.

It simply starts one of these modules:

Blank Screen
Parallax-Scroller
XDesktopwaves
Mplayer (Fullscreen)
slideshow

No Password-protection, no support for anything further special.


Usage:
Install, select "setup-PB-screensaver" in your Dotpup-menue.

Concerning Password-protection: not available yet, but I'm on it...

The slideshow uses the folder /usr/share/backgrounds
To use another one, edit:
/usr/local/PuppyBasicScreensaver02/resource/mod_slideshow.pbas

Download (62 kb):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/PuppyBasicScreensaver02.pup

UPDATE: bugfixed version 03 as Pet:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44574&start=45

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Note for the slideshow:
if the slideshow module does not work, use this workaround:
Install with Petget the package "gqview".
Then edit:
/usr/local/PuppyBasicScreensaver02/resource/mod_slideshow.pbas
like this:

[Alucard_the_dex]

I like a no thrills screen saver if im not at my comp why need it be so bloated I like the one i have on puppy now by defualt that just blanks my screen Kinda like a program i had for Windows that blacked my screen when i double clicked it i wish puppy had that ><

[MU]

Jep, think so too.

Thats to say, xscreensaver is not really bloated (if you look at the resources of modern machines), but just too big for Puppy.

Had just a rough look today, Download is 4 MB.
you certainly can delete some parts, but have to add others because of dependencies.

So I think a small PuppyBasic-solution will be a nice thing for Puppy

[gliezl]

would you consider putting a password to lock your puppy workstation?

I mean for future versions

[MU]

I uploaded version 02 with grafical interface.
It checks the keyboard now, too (uses a patched rsaver: http://www.linuxpages.org/rsaver_en.php )

[headfound]

Ok I fully admit to being a complete beginner when it comes to linux, but i'm very willing to learn with puppy, so, is it possible to run the screensaver as your background as in the xscreenaver hack eg

./flurry -root

will apparently run that saver as an animated desktop background. I tried installing xscreensaver but couldn't get it going so would the same command work with puppybasicsaver? eg will

./xdesktopwaves -root

run as an animated background?
thanks

[MU]

while xscreensaver is a "system", this one here is a "programcollection".
This means, it depends on the program, if you can run it in background.

Xdesktopwaves work, install the standalone-version for that:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2123

Mplayer can be used as Background, too, I think the option is -onroot

Or use mozilla:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8080

You also can run the xscreensaver-modules from another Linux-system, they are standalone-executables.

Mark

[headfound]

Wow thats great
Thanks, i will give it a go!
martyn

[Eyes-Only]

Nice Mark! Excellent! As is all of your things of course. Thank you so much. I've always found it so hard as "root" on other systems (yeah, yeah... "You're not supposed to run as root..." blah, blah---MY computer, eh?) as xscreensaver will never run so screen goes blank, monitor goes off. I dislike that very much.

My favourite? xdesktopwaves. Very calming effect!

Thanks so much again for all your useful .pups!

Amicalement / mfg

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

(P/s: You have very good French you! hehe! )

[MU]

I added a slideshow-module.

Mark

[MU]

There is a PET here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=295847#295847

The slideshow module was replaced by one based on SDL, so you need to install libSDL with petget, if SDL is not in your Puppy.
Newyearspup already includes SDL, so that pet should work without other packages.

Mark

[MU]

here is a special version.

It includes 8 modules from Xscreensaver (details see next message).

They are not displayed fullscreen, because then you could not exit them (as they are not managed by Xscreensaver).
Instead, they use "pseudo-fullscreen".
To exit them, you must click on them, then hit the "Esc" key!

In JWM, this looks like a maximized window, in Icewm, XFWM and Openbox it looks like fullscreen, but panels might cover it.
It depends on the setup of those windowmanagers.


A funny gimmick you can get like this:
if you edit:
/usr/local/PuppyBasicScreensaver02/resource/xscreensaver/xsaver
Line 43

[MU]

added some more screensavers, I think these are the most beautifull ones.

atlantis
fiberlamp
fireworkx
flurry
glmatrix
lament
starwars
xmatrix

Most require OpenGL.

You can see screenshots here:
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/

To display a different text in "StarWars", edit:
/usr/local/PuppyBasicScreensaver02/resource/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-text
There you can change the file, that will be listed.
Mark

[MUguest]

There was a bug with the new xscreensaver modules.
They were started again after the desired intervall, so you finally had lots of them running at the same time.

I corrected this now.
Mark

[MUguest]

I updated the pet.
Changes for the slideshow:
- runs with your current screensize
- loops once all pictures were shown (by using a recursive symlink, and the option to descend into subdirectories)
- uses "fade" as effect to blend the pictures.

Mark