[Desktop_architects] The experience of an ISV

[Michael Sweet]

Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Feb 14, 06 15:22:24 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
>> On Feb 14, 06 14:50:06 -0500, Mattias Hopf wrote:
>>> Xtst is a local only "solution".  As such, it doesn't help LTSP.
>>> IMHO it is not a solution at all. It is an ugly workaround, a kludge.
>> I did put "solution" in quotes, for a reason...  I guess I'm being too
>> subtle: let's call a spade a shovel then: "gross hack".
> 
> :) I did get it, but I just *had* to emphasise it :)
> 
> About XSetScreenSaver: I don't remember what, but there were issues.
> The man page reads like  there was never support for application space
> screen servers. 
> I'm sure Jim remembers this better than I do.

Well, I wrote and maintained the IRIX "stars" screen saver for a lot
of years, which uses the X screen saver interface to provide an
application-space screen saver.  The application just listened for
events and did the screen saver thing when it was told to...

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