On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, David Freeman wrote:
I was reading cryptonomicon for the second time and I was wondering how I would go about do what Randy does with X windows.
Hmmm, mental note must read the copy of cryptonomicon that is sitting on the book shelf soon.
For those who don't know, Randy configures X so that there are no window titles, and the background is a script generating windows which open and close at random.
The window titles bit would be the work of your window manager, I use enlightenment and you can set this behaviour by right-clicking the title bar and choosing borderless from the drop down list. I think Sawmill/Sawfish is probably better at this but that is another package I havn't had time to play with.
As for you second question yup it is possible, I did once have a program that would find a random .jpg from the net and display it in the root window as a background, although I would not reccomend using this program as it could be more than a little embarassing considering some of the content of the net. You probably want to take a look at the man page for xsetroot and something like xearth as this does similar things.
Also I wondered if it was possible to output morse code on the scroll lock LED.
You can make the keyboard LEDs do lots of fun things! as Neill suggests a quick look on Freshmeat would probably bring up the correct results. and a quick google search says look here http://www.sudac.org/~napolium/linux/ and here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ditdah/
Adam