News and updates to Gavin Brock’s code
Just a quick note to let you know that Websaver should now work on 10.6 64bit. The recompiled version is available here:
As you can see, I have moved the source to Google Code, and so any issues can be reported on the issues page.
Cheesy disclaimer: I don’t have a 10.6 64bit capable machine for testing :-( . Please let me know if it works.
Bug Fixes:
New Feature:
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New features:
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I just uploaded csshX v0.60.
Main new feature is draggable bounds changing. This allows you to resize or move your window set after it has been opened. Bounds changing is accessible using Ctrl-a b. Once you select the new area for the windows to use, press Enter to accept it.
* Note, dragging between Spaces on 10.5 does not work. I cannot find a way to ask a window which space it has been moved to, nor tell another window to move to a space.
You can also now hide your window (rather than minimise them) with Ctrl-a h. This is much faster than minimise, and I find Ctrl-a h, Apple-m is a great way to clear my csshX screens away temporarily. Window hiding has also allowed me to improve the retiling performance.
Other changes are minor, including one fix to the nasty infinite loop bug when using enable mode selection.
As always, please report any issues you may come across, preferably on the issues page.
Thanks to some great publicity from Mac OS X Hints, I have received lots of feedback and bug reports.
Number one issue has been multi-monitor support, and problems related to it. This is now working.
To use it, add a –screen n to your command line, where n is the screen number. It will default to screen zero if omitted.
This was actually a nasty problem since there is no quick AppleScript solution, and the only way to get screen counts and sizes is by calling the AppKit frameworks. This is Objective-C only and since csshX is written in perl, I had to mess with the PerlObjCBridge (or Foundation.pm as it’s known) to get the NSFrame. To make matters worse, NSFrame is not even Objective C, rather it’s a pure C struct. In the end, I use NSValue to give me a string “description” of the data, and parse this with regex’s (differenet for 10.4 and 10.5 naturally!).
Other changes:
The package is available at:
One of the all time great sysadmin tools is Cluster SSH. It allows you to open up ssh sessions on multiple machines and send commands to them all through a common master window. It’s a perl script that uses xTerms and Tk.
My problem was that OS-X has a bit half-hearted X11 support and I always wanted a version that used Terminal.app. Finally after messing with some Applescript the other day, I realised it is possible to do.
So I have created csshX – my OS-X homage to cssh.
Another Google Maps API based screen saver for WebSaver. Based on the recently released Street View API, this walks around a few US cities (NY, LA, SF and Boston to be exact). The movement is random, but a history is kept to avoid too much repeating.
View it at: http://brock-family.org/streetview.html
The Street View API is still pretty new, and it does seem to leak memory (under Safari 3), so this may slow down your system.
Now, this will be more fun when they get some cities I know on it.
I have uploaded a YouTube page for WebSaver.
The base URL is, http://brock-family.org/youtube.html however you can control it by passing arguments at the end of the url:
mute=1 – Turns off the sound (usually a good idea)
rows=n – Sets the number of rows of videos to view. n can be any number that your system can handle
cols=n – Sets the number of columns of video. Again – limit is up to your system
For example – my favourite is 3×2 videos with mute:
http://brock-family.org/youtube?mute=1&rows=2&cols=3
One other feature – if you only have 1 video (rows=cols=1) then the page will use a cookie to remember your last position in the last video.
Websaver 2.1 is now available. Full details here.
Main addition is SMS support. If you have a laptop with the Sudden Motion Sensor, the screen saver can now send these events to the web-page as cursor input.
This is primarily for the google-maps saver page: http://brock-family.org/map.html
