BobC
See the last post for the zip file, it includes examples.
Any executable file in /etc/xscreensaver.d will be processed, and whatever is sent to std output will go to the screensaver
and any .txt file put there will go to the screensaver
There are scripts there for icewm keys and preferences.
If a line begins with #key it will be ignored, so commented out keys don’t get displayed
if you add comments to the end of key assignment lines with a # with a space on each side they will appear nicely as — to separate the key from its function
There are examples of news feeds, which are basically rss feeds from a web URL. If you want a different one, copy one and change the copy. There are options for the maximum number of lines and whether or not to show description lines
I also included 3 examples of weather conditions and forecasts, basically just taking the text, adjusting it so it looks better and sending it to std output
On xscreensaver you need the starwars screensaver installed and selected, go to it on the select screen, see pic starwars_sst
If you go to the settings tab it should look like the settings pic
If you find that the text is misaligned, maybe try using a different font, which you can change using the advanced button off the settings tab and adding -font -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal–32-320-72-72-c-160-iso10646-1 to the command line as shown in the addfont pic. If you actually find a font that can display wttr.in correctly, please post it here. I spent many hours trying and had to settle for ugly boxes due to UTF-8 not being properly handled by anything that I could find.
I will have to add the zip file to a different post, as I can’t add any more attachments to this one
On the xscreensaver program you need to go to the advanced tab and change it to run a program called gen_sst, see pic gen_sst
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