I was reading cryptonomicon for the second time and I was wondering how I would go about do what Randy does with X windows.
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.
Also I wondered if it was possible to output morse code on the scroll lock LED.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
D
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David Freeman wrote:
there are already programs which divert the network traffic to teh keyboard LED's, can't remember the name, but it's on freshmeat.. very annoying on 100 Meg network with a few hundred users !!!!
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Neill Newman wrote:
A quick look on Freshmeat reveals http://freshmeat.net/projects/morse2led/ a program that claims to.
"The morse2led package consists of two programs, blinker and text2morse. Coordinated use of the programs can translate text into morse code displayed on your keyboard's leds, as described in Neal Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon_. The blinker program is a very flexible tool that interprets a token stream as signals to control the leds, allowing one to do cool things like make Knight-Rider patterns or send subtle visual alerts. The text2morse program translates text into user defineable morse code text symbols. Compiles on Linux and FreeBSD. Runs in text console or X mode."
Adam
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.
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/
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