linux screensaver in windows

karunesh · 12-27-2005, 12:16 AM

Hi Guys..

Yesterday after viewing my screensaver in my notebook with CentOS 4.2 one of my friend aksed me "Can he get that compass(screensaver) in hiw Windows machine ?". I told him that it is not possible as the application was not built for Win32 plateform..but then I thought "Is it really not possible !".

So I want suggestions from community about the possiblity of porting the basic apps like screensaver from linux to windows or vice-versa...

Simon Bridge · 12-27-2005, 03:53 AM

Find the developer/maintainer and see if there is already a windows binary for it. Otherwise you'll have to compile it from source. Probably even modifying for the way windows handles graphics.

[edit] BTW: see this... http://www.reallyslick.com/

These are OpenGL screensavers for windows. You'll see some gnome screensavers here I think.

cs-cam · 12-27-2005, 05:40 AM

That dude has some cool schtuff on his site, thanks for the link Simon!