Re: run arbitrary program as screensaver?

[Bill Warner <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>]

>
> I run setiathome all the time and not just as a screen saver.
> just run the console version and rederect the output to /dev/null
>
> setiathome > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>
> and then set the nice to 19
>
> renice <seti pid> 19
>
> and forget about it.
>
> Bill Warner
>
> Christophe Broult wrote:
>
> > What about using the `setiathome' package?
> >
> > # apt-get install setiathome
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > setiathome
> >
> > Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> >
> > > Anyone know of a way to run an arbitrary program as the screensaver?
> > > Two applications that have come to mind are setiathome and something
> like
> > > acidwarp. I'm really more interested in the first. In fact, I see no
> > > other practical way to run setiathome on a typical home machine.
> > > -chris
> >
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