changes:
-New molecule in molecule
-glhanoi now supports an arbitrary number of poles
-Turned on ``New Login'' button by default
-Added support for XInput-style alternate input devices
-OSX-specific fixes
changes:
-added, updated and improved hacks
-bugfixes
-Reworked PAM code to support fingerprint readers, etc.
-Minor tweaks for compilation on MacOS 10.5.0
Changes since 4.24: * Ported to MacOS X! (10.4.0 or newer)
* API change: instead of providing a single screenhack()
function that does not return, screen savers using the
screenhack.h framework must now provide "init" and
"draw one frame" functions instead. All bundled savers
have been updated; third-party patches will need work.
* All image-loading happens asynchronously.
* xscreensaver-getimage-file caches the contents of the
image directory for a few hours, so consecutive runs
won't have to re-list the whole directory tree.
* New hacks, `topblock' and `glschool'.
* Removed `xteevee' (superceded by `xanalogtv').
* Added variable-sized puzzle pieces to `jigsaw'.
* Changes to the defaults and command-line options of
many hacks to make the .xml files more consistent.
* Reap zombies in `glslideshow' and `carousel'.
* `sonar' works without setuid on OSX (dgram icmp).
* `xmatrix -mode pipe' displays the text of a subprocess.
* `endgame' has higher resolution chess-piece models.
* `webcollage' takes a -directory option to get images
from a local directory.
Changes since 4.23: * New versions of `cube21', `glsnake', `celtic'.
* Backed out a DPMS-related patch that cause desktop
flickering with some X servers.
* Fixed startup crash in getgroups() when running setuid.
* Default to not displaying stderr on the saver window.
* Fixed bad free() in "Documentation" button.
* Don't try to run hacks that aren't installed.
* Minor fixes to various XML config files and man pages.
Changes since 4.22: * New hacks, `glhanoi', `cube21', `timetunnel',
`juggler3d', and `celtic'.
* New versions of `tangram', `webcollage', `hypertorus',
`polytopes', and `ripples'.
* `sonar' is now quiet about unresolvable hosts.
* Minor corrections to BASIC code in `apple2'.
* Don't install `ant' by default, since there is some
Java tool of that name, which was causing confusion.
And also it's boring.
* Made screen grabbing work again on MacOS 10.4.2.
* No longer prints bogus warnings about ClientMessages
intended for the window manager.
* Ignore unprintable characters in passwd entry field.
* Fixed yet another cross-host-display image-loading
endian problem.
* `xscreensaver-command -watch' and `-time' now work
on 64-bit machines.
Changes since 4.21: * Fixed a bug in the new mouse-motion code that caused
the screen to never blank on multi-head non-Xinerama
systems. Oops.
* New hacks, `interaggregate', `antmaze', `tangram',
and `crackberg'.
* Minor tweaks to `fiberlamp', `ifs', `slidescreen',
`zoom', `sonar', `fireworkx', `whirlwindwarp',
`bubble3d', and `rd-bomb'.
* Added motion blur to `blinkbox'.
* `bsod' now includes Longhorn's "RSOD", and OS/2.
* Fixed `-wireframe' usage in most hacks and man pages.
Changes since 4.20: * New hack: `fliptext'.
* Changed default configure installation directories:
/usr/bin/ for xscreensaver, etc.;
/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/ for hacks;
/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/ for xml files.
* All the text-manipulating screen savers can have their
text source configured via `xscreensaver-demo' now.
* xscreensaver.spec now builds three RPMs:
base (no hacks); extras (2d hacks); and gl-extras.
* Added `-program' and `-front' option to `gltext'.
* Added `-shells' to `molecule'.
* Fixed text-alpha glitch in `carousel'.
* New `pacman': the ghosts can be killed now.
* Fixed a bug in screen-grabbing GL hacks where images
would be tiled instead of scaled on machines that
can't do large textures.
* `webcollage' can hit Flickr now.
* New (rewritten) implementation of `ifs'.
* The unlock dialog can be made to have a "New Login"
button that will run `gdmflexiserver'. Experimental!
* Fixed non-ASCII display bug in `starwars'.
* Configure finds a default for imageDirectory.
* "xscreensaver-command -lock" now works even if
in "screensaver disabled" mode.
* If a bad password is typed while CapsLock is on, the
unlock dialog says "CapsLock?" instead of "Sorry".
* Mouse motion only counts as activity if the mouse moved
more than 10 pixels (so the screen won't unblank every
time you bump your desk.)
* New mode option "random-same": if you have multiple
monitors, this will run the *same* randomly chosen
hack on each screen, instead of different ones on each.
Changes since 4.19: * New hacks, `fiberlamp', `boing', `boxfit', and
`carousel'.
* Rewrote `glslideshow' again: should be faster now.
* Sped up loading of images in GL programs.
* `starwars' uses texture-mapped fonts now.
* New `bsod' modes: tru64, hppa, and nvidia.
* Updates to `webcollage', `juggle', `pinion',
`fireworkx', `sonar', `extrusion', `substrate', and
`pong'.
Changes since 4.18: * New hacks, `substrate', `intermomentary', `fireworkx',
and `pinion'.
* New version of `flow'.
* Made /proc/interrupts work again on Linux 2.6.
* Made `analogtv' not hog the CPU.
* Made analogtv-based hacks work properly on PPC/ARM.
* Fixed a bad memory leak in `piecewise'.
* Minor updates to `sonar', `molecule', `glmatrix',
`galaxy', and `webcollage'.
* Removed support for GTK 1.x (everyone uses 2.x now.)
4.18 14-Aug-2004
* Oops, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
4.17 14-Aug-2004
* New hacks, anemotaxis and memscroller.
* Fixed a bad bug that caused vidwhacker to never die.
* Fixed normals and lighting in polyhedra.
* Don't reuse the window when changing hacks (to work around bugs in some GL
implementations.)
* Made xscreensaver-getimage-file skip thumbnail-sized images.
* Fixed endian problem in barcode on non-x86.
* Updates to webcollage, apple2, fuzzyflakes, atunnel, and pacman.
* Timing tweaks to bubble3d, bouncingcow, engine, gltext, lavalite,
molecule, spotlight, sballs, boxed, blinkbox, and circuit.
* Configure updates for Fedora core 2 / xorg 6.7.0.
* Compile without warnings under gcc 3.3.3.
* I give up: don't blank or lock the screen if we can't get a keyboard grab.
In that case, both choices are bad.
* New hacks, `wormhole', `mismunch', `noof', and
`pacman'.
* `phosphor' and `apple2' include vt100 emulators now:
this means you can do "phosphor -program top", or
can use either program as an xterm replacement:
"apple2 -text -fast -program 'xemacs -nw'".
* `analogtv' (and related) fill the screen better.
* The '-gradient' option works in `atlantis' now.
* Minor updates to `blinkbox', `queens', `endgame',
`glmatrix', `mirrorblob', `blocktube', and `molecule'.
* Integrated SuSE's "external passwd helper" support.
* Marginally better /tmp handling in various programs.
* Updated config defaults for xplanet 1.0.3.
* Portability fixes.
xscreensaver-demo program (which requires GTK). This is done to allow
xscreensaver coexist with xscreensaver-gnome, and to avoid a dependancy
on GTK when installing kdeartwork3.
Changes since 4.13:
* New hacks, `fontglide', `apple2', `xanalogtv', `pong',
`gleidescope', `mirrorblob', and `blinkbox'.
* New version of `glsnake' (with many more models.)
* Another Windows crash in `bsod'; also HVX/GCOS6/TPS6.
* New version of `endgame'.
* Screen grabbing works on MacOS X.
* Various minor fixes.
Ok'ed by wiz@.
- The demo now needs --crapplet to run properly in the control-center
(undoubtedly, short for "control-center applet"). ;-)
- There's no need to haphazardly install the gnome2 applet into the gnome1
directories, as the package gnome2 control-center will presumably use
the directories designated for it.
Changes since 4.05: * New hack, `glblur' (disabled by default, since it
requires fast OpenGL texture support.)
* New hack, `halftone'.
* Updates to `endgame', `queens', `bumps', `glplanet',
`engine', and `circuit'.
* New version of `menger' that uses far fewer polygons.
* Fixed minor bug in `critical' that could cause some
bogus X servers to crash.
* Better labels in `molecule': the labels now appear to
be attached to the atoms, instead of floating in front
of the whole scene.
* Fixed bug that could rarely cause GL hacks to fail to
double-buffer (causing intermittent flickering.)
* Fixed a relative-URL-parsing bug in `webcollage'.
* Fixed a bug that (sometimes) caused the window manager
close box to kill `xscreensaver-demo' with a crash
instead of a graceful exit.
* Updated xscreensaver.pam to the Red Hat 7.3 way.
* More Gnome2-related configure crap.
* Updated to latest `config.guess' and `config.sub'.
* Fixed occasional core dump in `distort'.
* Added a Linux fsck failure and kernel panic to `bsod'.
* Added MacOS X kernel panic to `bsod'.
* Fixed a bug in `bsod' (all bsod bugs are ironic.)
* Fixed a bug that caused `xscreensaver-gl-helper' to
print a nonsense visual ID with some versions of
`printf': this could cause GL programs to display
incorrectly (e.g., flickery.)
Changes since 4.04: * More `configure' tweaks to try and get things working
on systems that both Gtk 1.x and 2.x installed.
* New hack, `endgame'.
* Minor updates to `gltext'.
Changes since 4.03: * Support for GTK 2.x / GNOME 2.x.
* The `configure' script will now use `pkg-config' if
you have it, in preference to `gtk-config', etc.
* New hacks, `lavalite', `queens', and `anemone'.
* Minor updates to `spheremonics', `gltext', `xmatrix'.
* You can use the mouse to manually spin most of the GL
hacks now (when they are displaying in a window.)
* Fixed a bug in `webcollage' (due to recent Alta Vista
url changes) that was causing it to try and load
incorrect image URLs.
* Made `xscreensaver-getimage' use gdk_pixbuf if it is
available: this means that those hacks that load images
will no longer rely on "xv", "xloadimage", etc. This
will close a race condition that could sometimes cause
your desktop background to be changed; and also makes
it possible for those programs to operate on image
files when running in windowed mode.
* `webcollage' can now be used in conjunction with
`driftnet' to display images snooped from your local
ethernet instead of obtained from search engines.
* Added man pages for all the hacks that didn't have
them.
Changes since 4.02: * New hack, `spheremonics'.
* Minor updates to `webcollage', `cage', `moebius',
`morph3d', `boxed', `circuit', and `helix'.
* `pulsar' and `extrusion' can now load texture JPEGs.
* `rubik' now does non-square cubes.
* `fluidballs' now does various sizes of balls.
* `menger' and `sierpinski3d' now also show polygon
counts in -fps mode.
* `molecule' displays real subscripts in the formulae.
* GTK internationalization/localization support.
* Better detection of the various versions of libxml.
* Upgraded to autoconf 2.53 (from 2.13.)
* Plugged a few minor leaks in `xscreensaver' and `xscreensaver-demo'.
* New hacks, `cubenetic' and `fluidballs'.
* Sped up `pipes'.
* Fixed sphere projection error in `glplanet'; installed a better image
of earth.
* Added Win2K and MacOS 1 crashes to `bsod'.
* Put back previous (better) version of `forest' that was accidentially
downgraded in the last release.
* New version of `bumps'.
* Made FPS computation in GL hacks more efficient: it will influence the
results less, thus resulting in higher (but more accurate) reported frame
rates.
Changes since 4.00:
* New hacks: `twang', `glsnake', `boxed', `sballs', and `glforestfire'.
* New hacks `apollonian', `euler2d', `juggle', `polyominoes' and
`thornbird', from xlockmore.
* Merged recent xlockmore changes into `ant', `braid', `demon',
`discrete', `drift', `fadeplot', `forest', `grav', `hopalong',
`ifs', `laser', `lightning', `lisa', `lissie', `loop', `mountain',
`penrose', `rotor', `sierpinski', `slip', `sphere', `spiral',
`strange', and `vines'.
* Fixed the `gltext' bug that sometimes caused horizontal lines to
vanish again. This time for sure.
* Sped up `webcollage' by adding a C helper program to replace the PPM
pipeline. It also pastes images semi-transparently now.
* Added support for the gdk_pixbuf library: if this lib is available,
then `blitspin', `xflame', and `flag' can load GIF, JPEG, and PNG
images in addition to XPM and XBM. [not enabled in pkg]
* Fixed a rare race condition where the desktop-grabbing hacks could
sometimes leave the screen wedged, if the user moved the mouse
exactly when they were grabbing the screen image (it would un-wedge
the next time the saver timed out or was activated.)
* Fixed incorrect colors in the screen-grabbing GL hacks (`gflux' and
`flipscreen3d'.)
* Made SIGHUP restart the daemon process (though using
`xscreensaver-command -restart' is still the preferred way.)
* Tweaks to `xspirograph'.
* Minor configure and portability tweaks.
and *BSD (allows to simplify the package somewhat), and revamped
Screensaver Options: xscreensaver now lets you configure your DPMS
settings. More detail on the web page --
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html
[The README in the package currently only goes to 3.27.]
Changes since 3.21: * Fixed some bugs in xscreensaver-demo.
* Rewrote the Motif version of xscreensaver-demo to
match the new Gtk version.
* The Athena toolkit is no longer supported.
XXX: depends on lesstif>=0.89.9 (or motif), but dependency is handled
indirectly by USE_MOTIF... how to handle this?
