Recent changes to feature-requests

Feature request: Change density of raining code

Christian Van Meurs — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:10:57 -0000

Mac version user here. I was wondering if you would be able to add a setting that lets users adjust the density of the falling lines of characters. Currently I have Matrix themed screensavers on both my Mac and my PC a few feet away, and the one I have on PC has more black space between the falling lines of code, and as a result looks closer to what I saw in the film. I otherwise really love the screensaver - thanks to all who worked on it.

Add mode like famous xscreensaver

rubenvb — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:24:19 -0000

I understand that would be duplicating work, but there is no decent port of the GLMatrix XScreensaver to Windows. This would be awesome to have.

Feature request - B/W pics.

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:59:26 -0000

If it is possible (and if it's not so hard). Importing custom pictures in black&white format (JPG,TGA,BMP) with possibility to use luminosity as depth (black=deep). And/or custom text messages using system fonts.

PS. Or maybe just some sort of editor for custom txt messages and pics.

Slocate in bug report script

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:44:05 -0000

Use slocate if available instead of find in the bug_report script, it would be much faster

Config file in Windows

Vincent Launchbury — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:08:45 -0000

As requested by Apocrypha, we should implement a config file in Windows so that options can be saved. One of these methods should be used:
> Settings should be auto-saved (i.e changing to static mode would save to the config file immediately)
> Pressing the W key will write out the current settings to the config file.
Obviously since it's windows, we can't expect users to write their own.

Support install on OSX

Vincent Launchbury — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:04:44 -0000

Right now matrixgl compiles and runs on OSX. However, it doesn't work or install in the mac screensaver manager, and therefore is useless as a screensaver on mac.

I'm not sure how to fix this without tons of Objective-C, which I don't know. If anybody knows a way without using Objective-C, it would be much appreciated :).

Use Autotools

Vincent Launchbury — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:02:17 -0000

The project should use autotools for better portability. The install should also be ported to the Makefile, so we can have the standard install:
$./configure
$make
#make install

Automake can probably find the xscreensaver directories more reliably too. It will be