[4042] in testers
Re: more on xss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z. Maze)
Wed May 19 14:47:19 1999
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@GRATUITOUS-EXISTENCE-FAILURE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 May 1999 14:28:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: Dan Winship's message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 11:08:07 -0400"
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Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU> writes:
> bsod displays various crash screens. this is sort of cute, but also
> very misleading and confusing. It should probably be a default, as
> people might just reboot the machines.
Dan>
Dan> I'd like to think people are at least non-dumb enough to try
Dan> hitting a key first. But I can see an argument for diabling
Dan> it... Do other people have opinions?
I think it's probably worth leaving the various screensaver hacks out
there, possibly with a list of what all of them are. The default list
of things included should probably omit all of the broken and
confusing ones, as well as the ones that don't hide what you're doing.
This list ultimately comes from $HOME/.xscreensaver, or, failing that,
a compiled-in list, which is built from
third/xscreensaver/driver/XScreenSaver.ad.in. That list (going from
/afs/dev/source/src-current) presently omits, among other things, bsod
and all of the GL hacks.
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
