Use as a screensaver or on desktop ?

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Hi,
maybe this program would be nice as a screensaver, taking a list of git
repositories (or a list of urls to clone when encountering it) (integrated
with xscreensaver then)
Another use would be to display on the root window (the desktop), like
mplayer -rootwin, or //any-xscreensaver// -root.

these are only ideas though

Original issue reported on code.google.com by erlk.o...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2009 at 6:53

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xscreensaver compatibility is a good idea. That's probably enough by itself. The
random content selection stuff can always be done by an intermediate script or
xscreensaver itself for that matter.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2009 at 10:51

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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any updates with this issue? I am really think that screensaver will be killer 
feature. 

Original comment by noisy.pl@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2010 at 2:18

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Hi. I was having a look at this yesterday.

I'm still trying to find an example of how to get SDL to use the root window 
that I can apply to Gource.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2010 at 10:36

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ping

Original comment by noisy.pl@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 12:51

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Any update on this feature ?
I saw that there was a branch xscreensaver long ago with this feature, any hope 
to merge these changes back to the main branch ?

Original comment by thomas.s...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 8:40

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Hi.

I was hoping to support screensavers on other platforms but on Windows 
screensaver support is a mess.

I can probably merge this in the near future.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2011 at 8:58

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I couldn't get the xscreensaver branch to compile, but I _did_ successfully 
rebase it onto master, cf:
https://github.com/atondwal/Gource/
https://github.com/atondwal/Core

Original comment by Twilight...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2012 at 7:28

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Gource *can* in fact be displayed on the xscreensaver window (probably the same 
for gnome-screensaver though untested) setting the SDL Environment-Variable 
SDL_WINDOWID. In our case to $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW. 

The Envvar works on X11 Systems, and supposedly also on Win32 though we did not 
test the latter.

Original comment by robocu...@googlemail.com on 15 Jan 2014 at 7:12