[2080] in SIPB bug reports
xscreensaver -> rs6000, mark I
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y Jaspan)
Sun Sep 8 23:53:02 1991
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 91 23:52:33 -0400
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I attempted to port xscreensaver to the RS/6000 tonight (used one of
them in the w20 cluster). It *mostly* worked. Problems:
o I had to comment out PASSWORD_PORT because I couldn't find
sys_errlist in a .h file (xsaver.h is local in the rsaix directory)
o I had to #ifdef something on PASSWORD_PORT.
o I modified xsaver.h to define COMPILE_SETENV (also in the local
version). How does one identify this machine via cpp?
For some reason I will not begin to think about, everybody's passwd
field in /etc/passwd is !, not *. Therefore, when you lock the
screen, xscreensaver prompts you to enter a password. I'm too tired
to figure out the Right Thing to do.
Blanking or locking the screen does not actually blank the screen.
The floating icon starts floating, but the actual contents remain
visible (and are slowly blacked out by the floating icon).
I am not going to install this in the sipb locker just yet, it really
isn't ready.
Barr3y
