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oddwareso
September 11th, 2009, 01:06 PM
Hello All,

I am running Ubuntu Server 9.04. I would like to change the screen saver from just a blank screen to running a script. This script will just display some text at random spots on the screen (Eg. Time, Uptime, Internet ip, Lan ip, so on). How can i get it to execute the script instead of just going to a blank screen.

Cheers much :)

oddwareso
September 12th, 2009, 08:49 AM
bump

oddwareso
September 14th, 2009, 01:15 AM
Ok, How would i go about finding out how long the machine has been idle for? I could run the script every minute as cronjob and check for idle time, if idle time < set preiod then exit script, If idle time > set period then run rest of script.

I find it hard to believe that no one has wanted to display "Stats data" instead of just a blank screen.