Re: Twilight II updates (was Re: Screen Saver)

[droberts@chaos.bsu.edu (Dave J. Roberts)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
[SL/IP will eat interrupts, GNO rules, etc]
:    Interrupt handlers can do o instruction, and they won't be delayed
: in the middle. But, if you want a GNO screen saver as opposed to a GS
: one, there should be a few system IPCs that could be agreed upon
: ("GNOScreenSavers" is what you'd call it, but I digress) and used to
: tell any installed screen saver to do its blanking. Also, GNO was an
: obscure unstable environment (only 1.0) when T2 1.1 came out; now that
: it has gained a niche market, maybe someone with the specs on a daemon
: and all could make one.

	Specs on a daemon? There aren't any specs on a daemon, since it's
pretty much the same as a unix daemon: just a regular process that runs 
in the background, and doesn't ever exit (normally). What would be best for
screen savers would be a kernel "getidletime()' call or something that could
be checked once/minute or some other reasonable amount of time.

[T2 is slower than UltraBlank cuz it does alot more]
[Babylon 5 reference]
[IRC agressions taken to UseNET removed]

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