scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) (09/19/90)
I would like to thank Ron Flax and Bob Adkins-Hastings for posting AUXLaserWriter!!! It works great, and solves my (current) biggest headache. Now for my next problem, does anyone know of a screensaver that uses little cpu resources, and will work when the login prompt is showing? steve
einhorn@triton.unm.edu (E Drew Einhorn ADV.SCI.Inc) (09/19/90)
In article <3542@oasys.dt.navy.mil> scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes: >I would like to thank Ron Flax and Bob Adkins-Hastings for posting >AUXLaserWriter!!! I was just getting ready to wade into CAP. Thank God there's an easier way going to download it AUXLaserWriter right now. > Now for my next problem, does anyone know of a screensaver >that uses little cpu resources, and will work when the login prompt is >showing? > In addition it would be wonderful if the screen saver would reset its timer for keyboard events instead of just for mouse events. -- einhorn@triton.unm.edu
anderson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Steve Anderson) (09/20/90)
In article <3542@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes: > Now for my next problem, does anyone know of a screensaver > that uses little cpu resources, and will work when the login prompt is > showing? > As someone pointed out here a few weeks ago, there's a way to make screensavers work when the login prompt is up. Just pull down the About... box to display all those signatures. If you leave that up, the screensaver will kick in on schedule. At least Moire does (put it in the startup system folder). When you want to login, just move the mouse and then click it (to make the about screen go away) to get back to the login prompt. Steve Anderson Cognitive Science Center The Johns Hopkins University <anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu>
scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) (09/21/90)
In article <15423@csli.Stanford.EDU> anderson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Steve Anderson) writes: >In article <3542@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes: >> Now for my next problem, does anyone know of a screensaver 8>> that uses little cpu resources, and will work when the login prompt is 8>> showing? 8>> 8>As someone pointed out here a few weeks ago, there's a way to make 8>screensavers work when the login prompt is up. Just pull down the 8>About... box to display all those signatures. If you leave that up, 8>the screensaver will kick in on schedule. At least Moire does (put it 8>in the startup system folder). When you want to login, just move the 8>mouse and then click it (to make the about screen go away) to get back 8>to the login prompt. 8> I know about using the About... box, etc. That's why I explicitly asked about screensavers that would work when the login prompt is visable, i.e., it doesn't depend on the user in effect, manually turning on the screensaver by doing that steve
jk@Apple.COM (John Kullmann) (09/21/90)
In article <3569@oasys.dt.navy.mil> scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes: >>> Now for my next problem, does anyone know of a screensaver >8>> that uses little cpu resources, and will work when the login prompt is >8>> showing? >8>> I use Blackout, a shareware screensaver, under A/UX. It works for both the login screen and during multifinder use. by checking the 'enable background events' box, it will leave cpu time for other stuff too.
liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) (09/21/90)
In <3542@oasys.dt.navy.mil> scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes: >Now for my next problem, does anyone know of a screensaver >that uses little cpu resources, and will work when the login prompt is >showing? /mac/bin/Login doesn't do the right things for normal Mac screensavers, except when in one of the other possible dialogues, e.g. change password, choose session type, about Login etc.... To see this (not) working, put an init such as Moire or SuperClock into the /mac/sys/Login System Folder and get Login up. With the normal display - no clock. Choose anything from a menu - watch those seconds tick by... -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 071-975 5250 (Fax: 081-980 6533)