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HollywoodDesktop theme
Posted by PJ_at_Belzabar_Software on Wed 10 Jan 2007 at 05:42
I'm working on a HollywoodDesktop theme. This has the computer behaving like in the movies.
For a start, I've decided I need an utterly useless "Access Granted" message. Conversely, of course, I'll need the "Access Denied" message as well for the obligatory first few times that I get it wrong while I do my decrypting letter by letter with the widget that I've gratuitously plugged into the system network.
In Debian:
the Access Denied comes up in big red letters in xdm if you replace the xlogin*fail: line in /etc/X11/Xresources.
For the Access Granted I've just put in:
xmessage -timeout 3 -buttons "" -center "ACCESS GRANTED" &
in the first line of my xsession. gdm, kdm users will probably have something similar.
Cool. Next on my agenda:
beeps as I type in letters, 70s style.
If I don't continue this thread, then you may take it that I've been successful on the beep front, and that my co-workers have formed a howling irate mob and lynched me.
PJ
For a start, I've decided I need an utterly useless "Access Granted" message. Conversely, of course, I'll need the "Access Denied" message as well for the obligatory first few times that I get it wrong while I do my decrypting letter by letter with the widget that I've gratuitously plugged into the system network.
In Debian:
the Access Denied comes up in big red letters in xdm if you replace the xlogin*fail: line in /etc/X11/Xresources.
For the Access Granted I've just put in:
xmessage -timeout 3 -buttons "" -center "ACCESS GRANTED" &
in the first line of my xsession. gdm, kdm users will probably have something similar.
Cool. Next on my agenda:
beeps as I type in letters, 70s style.
If I don't continue this thread, then you may take it that I've been successful on the beep front, and that my co-workers have formed a howling irate mob and lynched me.
PJ
Comments on this Entry
haha, very promising. Its about time as well. How about some CSI tech in this as well?:)
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Posted by Anonymous (85.22.xx.xx) on Thu 11 Jan 2007 at 18:34
Another important feature: render text line by line, accompanied by more silly beeps.
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