On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, patrick wrote:
in gem / pdp / gridflow: would it be possible for me to output visual in the root_window of x11? (like most xscreensaver with argument -root)
As can be found in the fine manual (http://gridflow.ca/latest/doc/format.html) You can do [@out x11 here root]. However make sure that no program has created a borderless window that covers exactly the root window, else you won't see anything. Usually the guilty party is a program called KDE-Desktop (/usr/bin/kdesktop).
But @out x11 has other options as well, if you need to hijack other windows; they're just harder to use in practice, because you need to get a window-id first (root is an exception, it's easy to find without an id...). I sometimes use /usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo to find window-id's. That kind of hijacking is critical for implementation of some GridFlow-specific features like [#peephole].
Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montréal QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju