CL Screen savers???

trey85stang · 12-26-2003, 11:18 PM

are there any command line screen saver programs??? just looking for a simple screen saver so i can leave the terminal up all the time...

is there anything??

thanks:trey

btw: running slackware 9.1

Bruce Hill · 12-27-2003, 06:08 AM

I think you can uncomment the line here that begins with Option in your file ->
/etc/X11/XF86Config

Code:

# Set the basic blanking screen saver timeout.

    Option      "blank time"    "10"    # 10 minutes

I think that will cause your screen to blank even if you're just running a terminal, but I'm not totally sure. As far as I know, you can't run an actual screen saver from command line because you'd have to have a X server for the screen savers to display.

adz · 12-27-2003, 07:14 AM

The console (terminal) will blank out after a time, though. So unless you need the pretty colours you should be OK.

xushi · 12-27-2003, 07:40 AM

My favorite for a CLI interface...
http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/

trey85stang · 12-27-2003, 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chinaman
I think you can uncomment the line here that begins with Option in your file ->
/etc/X11/XF86Config

Code:

# Set the basic blanking screen saver timeout. Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes

I think that will cause your screen to blank even if you're just running a terminal, but I'm not totally sure. As far as I know, you can't run an actual screen saver from command line because you'd have to have a X server for the screen savers to display.

that did not seem to work, I thought (or think?) that file only runs after startx?

however; xushi's link is a screen saver that runs in a terminal. i just have to launch it before i leave the screen... which is ok by me.!!

thanks
trey

Bruce Hill · 12-27-2003, 08:12 AM

Cool. Sorry for giving you bad information. I did something at one time to blank my screen rather than using an actual screen saver, and thought that was it.

kiko · 12-27-2003, 08:59 AM

xlock -remote -mode random
or
xlock -remote -info "`hostname`: `date`" -mode random

-remote option: enable unlock the screen n logout remotely (from other host on network/other room) to free the host for other potential users..
-info option: give usefull information about the hostname and time when the screen lock/screen saver started, reboot is ok if someguy leave public box locked for longer than 20 minutes ..

trey85stang · 12-27-2003, 09:04 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Chinaman
Cool. Sorry for giving you bad information. I did something at one time to blank my screen rather than using an actual screen saver, and thought that was it.

its cool.. not a problem

im trying to get a screen saver to run from the CLI, not from within X. xushi's is working well.. i have to start it manually but that is cool.