[21028] in Athena Bugs
Re: possible problem with certain xss modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Nov 6 15:42:27 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu, peeto de la noche <gamache@mit.edu>
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Date: 06 Nov 2002 15:42:24 -0500
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On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 17:21, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Wouldn't it be simpler to have one simple xss module that does
> something easy (and non-offensive to the X server) like bounce the
> Athena owl around the screen or something (similar to the way an
> empty Athena machine looks)? xss could be configured to run that
> module and only that module by default.
We don't have time to write a module ourselves, but I did get the
go-ahead at release team to narrow down the default list of screen hacks
to one existing module. If you have a preference for which one it
should be (it should be reasonably pretty and shouldn't consume godawful
amounts of CPU), speak up; otherwise I'll pick one.
