IRIX and Software

XPhoon background

toasty
From San Diego, CA
Who joined May 1, 2014, 12:54 a.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 4, 2014, 10:42 p.m...

Just for fun, I compiled xphoon, a simple program that sets the X root window to a picture of the current phase of the moon. And I'm using it as a background on IRIX (a la Twilight). I've attached the binary. Simply untar it to your path add the following to your $HOME/.backgrounds file.

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background "XPhoon"


command "-execute /path/to/xphoon"


default "-execute /path/to/xphoon"


exeok "/path/to/xphoon"

Source: http://acme.com/software/xphoon/

Enjoy!

daenerys 300 MHz R5K, 768 MB RAM, IRIX 6.5.30

vishnu
From Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Who joined March 18, 2007, 3:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 6, 2014, 6:17 p.m...

BEE-YOO-TEE-FUL, thanks! :mrgreen:

Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
Plan:
World domination! Or something...

sgifanatic
From Texas
Who joined July 25, 2010, 2:47 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 6, 2014, 6:18 p.m...

This is great! I'll be sure to try it soon.

smj
From Berkeley, CA, USA, NA, Earth, Sol
Who joined Nov. 12, 2007, 7:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at Sept. 7, 2014, 1:58 a.m...

Certain background or root window images immediately take me back to the monochrome workstations of the late 80s and early 90s. Xphoon is one, the monochrome version of this astronaut doing an EVA (or one very similar - I failed to craft a good enough incantation for Google image search...) is another.