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Screen Savers, Demos and Games
This document describes the screen savers,
interesting demonstrations and games that are available on Solaris
2.5 systems.
NOTE: If your hard disk is unusually full and you
wish 15 megabytes more disk space, you can remove these non-business
distractions by entering the following commands from an XTerm
window.
% su
# rm -rf /usr/openwin/demo
# rm /usr/openwin/share/images/fish/*
# rm -rf /usr/demo/SOUND
SCREEN BLANKER - If you
wish your screen to become blank after a period of time, select
the following sequence: Workspace | Properties | Category
| Miscellaneous | Screen Saver. Press 'Auto' and enter
'10' minutes. After you press 'Apply', the screen will become
blank after 10 minutes of no keystrikes or mouse movement.
You can also cause the screen to become blank by
entering the following command in an XTerm window.
This command blanks the screen after 3 seconds elapse
without a keystrike or mouse movement. This command stays active
until the next reboot. To clear this command, enter the following command
into an Xterm window.
SCREEN SAVER - You can
cause the screen to show various sizes of the "X" trademark
with the following command in an XTerm window:
This command waits 2 seconds before invoking the X screen saver and
changes the size every second. To clear this command, enter:
SCREEN LOCK - Another
screen saver that includes a screen locking feature can be invoked
by the XTerm command:
% xlock -timeout 2 -mode swarm
This command will wait 2 seconds to execute the screen saver
that locks the screen with swarms of color. The screen can be
unlocked by hitting any key or moving the mouse and then entering
the login account password. In addition, the 'swarm' argument
may be replaced with 'hop', 'life', 'qix', 'rotor', 'pyro', 'flame'
and others. With the 'blank' argument, the screen will become
blank as above as well as locked. This command is active only
once.
SOUND - You can play sounds
on your Sun workstation (except Sparc4's) with the following command:
% audioplay /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds/laughter.au
There are other sound files in that directory. Of
course, you can create a script that uses this sound command.
Open the Text Exitor and enter the following text:
#!/bin/csh -f
#
top:
xmes -bg lightblue 1 "For a good time. . ." 2 " Press Here " " Push Here "
if ($status == 1) then
audioplay /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds/laughter.au
else
audioplay /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds/flush.au
endif
goto top
Save the text in a file called 'fun'. Be sure to
give execute permissions for this file with the command:
You can run this script with the command:
FISH - You can turn your
$5000 computer into a $500 aquarium with the command:
% /usr/openwin/demo/realxfishdb -f16 -r0.1 -i0.1
This aquarium is a good weekend screen saver. However,
it uses a great deal of CPU time and should not be in operation
during Shaker Control tests.
There is even a chart with which you can select
your fish. Use the command:
% /usr/openwin/demo/fish_props
use the selections:
Display Mode: Single Buffered
Sea Sickness: On
Time between Updates: 15
Update Increment: 15
Fish selection: 16 to 20 of your favorites
This command creates the file
'~/.fishrc' that will be used to describe
the aquarium when you give the command:
% /usr/openwin/demo/realxfishdb &
More information is in the manual pages
PUZZLE - Before Rubic's
Cube, there was the sliding tile puzzle of 15 numbers. Enter
the command:
% /usr/openwin/demo/puzzle
Just select the tile that moves into the blank space
and the program will move it for you. You may move more than
one tile at a time.
The object is to arrange the tiles with the numbers
in order (1, 2, 3, 4) across the top until the bottom row is 13,
14, 15, blank.
SOLITARE - The classic
card game of Solitare is available with the command:
and the information manual can be found at:
ASTEROIDS - How quick
are your reactions? Test your skill with the 'Texteroids' test.
Use the mouse to kill the flying letters after you have entered
the following command:
% /usr/openwin/demo/texteroids
The information manual can be found at:
LOST CURSOR? - You will
always be able to find your cursor with the command:
% /usr/openwin/demo/xeyes
Cross-eyes occurs when you place your cursor between his eyes.
Help text can be found at:
MAZE - Solve a maze, or
let the system solve it for you. Be sure to press the 'Center'
mouse button after a new maze is drawn to prevent the solution
from appearing too quickly. You can also print the maze with
Snapshot and try to solve it on paper.
SPIDER (DOUBLE DECK SOLITARE) - A
slightly different game than the standard solitare. Please read
the Rules before play.
% /usr/openwin/demo/spider
There is more information in the manual pages accessed
with the command:
GRAPHICS DEMOS - Several
demonstrations of the graphics ability of the Sun workstation
are available. As always, the manual pages can be accessed with
the '% man'
command.
- Magnify a portion of the screen
% /usr/openwin/demo/xmag_multivis
- Create crawly worms
- Full graphics demo.
- Paint plaid patterns
% /usr/openwin/demo/plaid
- Draw interesting patterns
% /usr/openwin/demo/muncher
OPENLOOK WINDOWS DEMO -
Several interesting demonstrations of the available menu selection
types that are available
in OpenLook Windows are found in:
% /usr/openwin/demo/olitsampler
and
% /usr/openwin/demo/olittable
MAE (Macintosh Application Environment)-
A marketing demonstration of the Apple Macintosh can be created
with the command:
% /usr/openwin/demo/add/MAE_info
PHOTO-CD VIEWER - If you
have a cdrom reader and a photo cd disk, you may be able to display
the pictures. Please check the manual pages with the
'%
man runpcdviewer' command. The
photo cd program is run by the command '%
/usr/openwin/demo/runpcdviewer'.
Some 'tiff' format pictures are already installed.
Enter: '
/usr/openwin/demo/profile_demo'.
Then double click on the '../images' directory and then double
click on the '../tiff' directory and then select and image to
display.
UNIX HUMOR - Let the UNIX
"sees-all-knows-all" fortune teller answer your questions.
Please enter the following commands EXACTLY as shown for a surprise
response.
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
% got a light?
% man: why did you get a divorce?
% cat "door: paws too slippery
% \(-
% "How would you rate The New York Jet's incompetence?
% !1984
% sh
$ mkdir matter; cat > matter
$ lost
$ more drink < bottle; opener
$ exit
%
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