Re: Screensaver support for the Hurd console

[Marco Gerards]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

>    I think the second way to configure screensavers is the best.  What
>    do you think?
>
> I think it sucks, the console client and all plugins already take so
> many arguments that it is very confusing.  It is also impossible to
> specify what defaults the console should use, putting the command into
> a alias/script does not count.  You can't even get a list of the
> options a console plugin takes (console -d vga --help, shows the help
> for the console client I belive).

Sure, but I am not implementing a configuration file or working on
making --help work for a driver.  What I am doing is implementing
screensaver support.  This is what I asked about and you just changed
the subject to what you wanted to talk about.

> In short, the console-client should be changed to use Guile, which I
> might just do if I got to FOSDEM.

Nice.  I am not convinced guile should be used, but I do not care too
much about it either.

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Marco