Sunday, January 11, 2009

Nerdy kernel source screensaver

This is how to have the Phosphor screensaver scroll through random .c files from the kernel source.

Install xscreensaver (the default gnome lacks some settings) and set the Program field to something like:
cat `ls /usr/src/linux-source/kernel/*.c|shuf`

It's in the Advanced tab under Text Manipulation.

I'm not sure, but it might be possible to do the same in gconf-editor for the Gnome version of the screensaver.

In the line above I have a soft link to the source files:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.27 /usr/src/linux-source


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