10 Jun
2008
10 Jun
'08
12:58 a.m.
On 09 Jun 14:05, Steven Rose wrote:
Essentially something that would allow creation of screen savers from flash that would then work on GNU/Linux operating systems.
Technically, linux screen savers just write to the root window, so, all you'd actually need to do is embed a web browser or silimar in to the screen saver and display the flash movie on the "root" window. Given that there are also flash movie players, and they take a window argument, you could get those to display it on the root window as a shell script and set that as the "screensaver".
X Screen Hacks (as X11 screen savers are quite often called) really do just write to the root window, there's not a whole lot to 'em.
Cheers,
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Brett Parker