First of all, let me mention that LazyView is at least ideal for me, it might
be completely useless for you. Its features are:
- It doesn't move lots of lines, icons, images or pixels of any other kind
over the screen, which meens it keeps its hands off the CPU for most of
the time.
- Nevertheless it displays something useful on a nearly completely blank
screen. This is ideal for the monitor (a screensaver should not turn a
monitor completely black as far as I know).
- The thing I personally like the most: LazyView displays the current date
and time in large friendly letters on the screen, so everytime I enter my
room I know exactly what time it is (this means in most cases: too late).
The time's position is changed from time to time to prevent burn-ins.
How to install?
The place to install it is usually one of the following:
~/Library/BackSpaceViews
/LocalLibrary/BackSpaceViews
You may copy the directory LazyView.BackModule there by hand or you may use ProjectBuilder to compile the sources and install LazyView with the target 'install'. The third possibility is to compile it in a shell with the command
make install INSTALLDIR=<your prefered installdir>
For example:
make install INSTALLDIR=$HOME/Library/BackSpaceViews
Is it legal?
Sure it is. Just remember that this code comes with no warranty of any kind. You may freely distribute the source code and the resulting binary.
What else?
Note that this module is far from perfect. Don't use the source code as an example of how to programm such things. If you do improvements on the code, then please send me the changes.
Thanks for betatesting, ideas, tips go to: Christian Limpach, Brad Wright, Jason Bright, Darcy Brockbank, Ray Spalding.
Enjoy it and be nice to each other!
Felix Rauch
felix@nice.ch (NeXTmail welcome, but not too large please!)
