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06-23-2009, 09:58 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka
Distribution: Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 11
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Screensaver development
Hi,
How do I develop screensavers for Linux?
I don't have any idea. What are the programming languages I should be familiar with?
Thank you in advance.
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Shaakunthala.
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06-23-2009, 10:10 AM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Distribution: CentOS 5.3, Mac OSX 10.6.8
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you need to learn C++ and OpenGL Library those will help you write a screensaver
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06-24-2009, 02:21 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa
Distribution: Fedora 17 - 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64
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Take a look at xscreensaver, its full source is available - instead of writing a screensaver app from scratch, you can probably do a module / hack for it in the xscreensaver framework, saving you an incredible amount of work...
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06-24-2009, 09:21 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka
Distribution: Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 11
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gnome-screensaver
Quote:
Originally Posted by rylan76
Take a look at xscreensaver, its full source is available - instead of writing a screensaver app from scratch, you can probably do a module / hack for it in the xscreensaver framework, saving you an incredible amount of work...
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Thank you for your reply. Can I use gnome-screensaver also? |
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06-25-2009, 09:00 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa
Distribution: Fedora 17 - 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64
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I suppose, I've only seen XScreensaver run, and it seems to have a very modularised approach - so it might be better for using a s an example than Gnome's screensaver...
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