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  Customizing xscreensaver GLText "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2018-09-22 14:10 -0400
    Re: Customizing xscreensaver GLText tom <tom@0.0.0.0> - 2018-09-23 11:34 -0700

#24525 — Customizing xscreensaver GLText

The GLText option of xscreensaver offers either System Information *or* 
Date and Time.

I have tried without success to come up with a variant, by customizing 
the command line, that will display both.

As an interim solution I have created a GLText2 that basically 
duplicates GLText, so that GLText can be set to System Information and 
GLText2 can be set to Date and Time and then have random changes between 
the two, but I'd rather have one that combines both.

Any suggestions?

Perce

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On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 14:10:41 -0400
"Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote:

> The GLText option of xscreensaver offers either System Information
> *or* Date and Time.
> 
> I have tried without success to come up with a variant, by
> customizing the command line, that will display both.
> 
> As an interim solution I have created a GLText2 that basically 
> duplicates GLText, so that GLText can be set to System Information
> and GLText2 can be set to Date and Time and then have random changes
> between the two, but I'd rather have one that combines both.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Perce

I have not used xscreensaver in a while but last I remember you could
set it to a file and just have a cron job cat and grep out something
in /proc/ yes? It also supports UNICODE last time I used it.

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