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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:19:56 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v6n1ec$23ef2$1@dont-email.me>:

> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:31:00 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
> 
>> XScreenSaver, well, my kids enjoy watching the bouncing cows, they
>> think its hilarious!
> 
> I would just leave it on “random” so you never knew which display it
> would run on the next activation. Some of them are just mind-blowing.

I have mine set to "Star Wars", with text input from a script I wrote
to display fortunes:

$ cat myfortune.sh 
#!/bin/bash
fortune -c | grep -v "^\%"
echo +++

# - -%<- -

 ...and turned down the scroll speed a bit.

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