Re: Screensaver support for the Hurd console

[Patrick Strasser]

Alfred M. Szmidt schrieb:
>    How would you reconfigure keybindings? Add hooks that are run on
>    some kind of event?

You are speaking of some kind of programming not configuration.

>    Maybe include a specific file depending on the
>    phases of the moon?

You forgot to switch on sarcastic mode. How is this to be done in valid
guile? ;->

>    What about changing values in a running
>    console-client without having to restart it (changing the timeout
>    for when the screensaver starts comes to mind)?

Change config file an send SIGHUP or SIGUSR1 or other signal.
Or use settrans. Of course you can write a guile wrapper for such things.

>    What if I want to
>    run "start-browser" when I click on a url with my mouse in the
>    console?

That should go into some console.events file.

> I might just as well note that these came just from the top of my
> head, far more interesting ideas can done if one uses Guile.
> Everything from programming how the keyboard leds behave (network
> load, cpu load, whatever), adding more tunes to generic-speaker, or
> dropping into a scheme shell by pressing a keycombo.  Your imagination
> is the limit. :-)

What about a guile plugin?

I agree that having a scriptable configuration is very powerfull. But i
don't want to have to learn the Change-the-configuration-basics fo guile
or any other language to set some values.
A compromise: Have a guile file that reads a key-value conig file for
the normal user. Everyone who wants to do fancy things and code his own
emacs ontop fo console can do this in the guile config file.

Patrick
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