use wine as screensaver for x

[Mike Hearn]

Yep, I've done this before but it was an evil, awful hack and I don't have
the patch anymore (probably just as well) :)

The way I did it was just to redirect the first created window, but again,
it was hacky. Hopefully you can find a better way.



On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:04:39 +0200, Detlef Riekenberg wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> While waiting for the commit of my localspl-Patches, 
> i want to picked up an fun project:
> 
> Has anyone an Idea, how to modify "user32.dll" and
> "winex11.drv" to open a Window, when I already have the
> X11 Window-ID (example: XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW=0x280020)? 
> 
> My Idea is to include the wrapper code in explorer.exe
> and use similar code as already present for "/desktop".
> 
> The Window width and height is not known on startup
> and does not match a well-known Desktop Size.
> I think, I need to add an Export to winex11.drv to fetch
> the size and reuse "X11DRV_create_desktop()" or add an Export
> to someting similar as "X11DRV_create_desktop()".
> 
> 
> The client registers a Window Class with a known name
> ("WindowsScreenSaverClass") and then CreateWindowEx must be 
> redirected to the already created X11-Window.
> 
> A lightwight solution might be to implement minimal features
> from "scrsave.lib" (RegisterClass) in "explorer.exe"
> and then call "ScreenSaverProc" directly.
> 
> 
> Any Ideas?