Re: xroach?
Re: xroach?
- Subject: Re: xroach?
- From: Greg Parker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:00:28 -0800
On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 01:41 AM, Brandon Peskin wrote:
However, my past experience with xroach was very entertaining (you'd
be surprised how many people come up to your terminal when you leave
it purposely unlocked to swat cockroaches - or better yet come running
and tell you there's roaches on your display.)
Has anyone had success in getting xroach to work? It's easy to compile
(add a sys/ in front of malloc.h at the beginning of xroach.c), but
I'm thinking the roaches move too fast (even if I set the speed to 1).
xroach and xsnow and similar programs work by drawing on the X11 root
window (which covers the entire screen). This fails with a "rootless"
X11 server because there is no root window for them to draw on. Another
common problem is the lack of window drag outlines in some window
managers, which are also drawn in the root window.
X11.app and XDarwin both simply ignore any requests to draw on the root
window, so you'll never see anything. Some older versions of XDarwin
would actually show the roaches on screen, but this feature was quite
slow and was not rewritten when the multiple-monitor code was changed.
The feature may return someday, but it's not a particularly high
priority.
--
Greg Parker email@hidden Java & Objective-C
email@hidden XDarwin
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