From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA21104; Thu, 13 May 2004 22:43:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA13295 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 22:43:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4DKhgSH003630 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 22:43:42 +0200 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.141]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.12.11+UW04.02/8.12.11+UW04.03) with ESMTP id i4DKheNs010562; Thu, 13 May 2004 13:43:40 -0700 Received: from lulu (mobile258.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.7.79]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.12.11+UW04.02/8.12.11+UW04.03) with ESMTP id i4DKheQJ000421; Thu, 13 May 2004 13:43:40 -0700 Received: from martine by lulu with local (masqmail 0.2.20) id 1BON2Q-1bk-00; Thu, 13 May 2004 13:42:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:42:42 -0700 From: Evan Martin To: Brock Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] x-windows screensaver in OCaml Message-ID: <20040513204242.GA6132@lulu> References: <20040512032044.GB3494@thelackthereof.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040512032044.GB3494@thelackthereof.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40A3DDFE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; evan:01 caml-list:01 x-windows:99 2004:99 0400,:01 hacks:01 hacks:01 evan:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 primitives:01 module:03 wrote:03 i'd:06 i'd:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:20:44PM -0400, Brock wrote: > So one of these days I'd like to write a screensaver in OCaml for > xscreensaver, which means drawing on X's root window. Any suggestions > for a super-simple way to do this? The primitives in the built-in > Graphics module are plenty for my needs, I just don't know how make it > appear on the root window. (I'd suggest beginning with reading the source to some existing xscreensaver hacks*.) * hacks = xscreensaver term for the individual screensavers -- Evan Martin martine@danga.com http://neugierig.org ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners