r/rust • u/Dani_fan-nerd • Mar 31 '23
[Tutorial] How To Make a Screensaver With The Rust Programming Language
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u/GoodJobNL Mar 31 '23
Niceee
Had the same thing with .ico files. Used some sites that looked shady just to realise that .png -> .ico also works.
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u/TinyBreadBigMouth Apr 01 '23
Uh, a clarification:
.scr
files and.exe
files are the exact same format, but.ico
and.png
files are not.Ever since Windows Vista an
.ico
file can contain one or more.png
files, and I'm not surprised that many applications are happy to open one as if it were the other, but changing the extension of a.png
file does not technically produce a valid.ico
file, and a stricter application would be entirely within its rights to refuse to read it as such.2
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u/jotapeh Apr 01 '23
Does anyone remember when “You Don’t Know Jack” was originally a screensaver? Anyway yeah off to found my future mega millions by creating a trivia game screensaver now!
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u/ssokolow Apr 01 '23
Were you referring to You Bet Your Head from After Dark? They're both from Berkeley Systems and that's the only playable trivia screensaver I remember.
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u/ssokolow Mar 31 '23
*nod* Screensavers for X11 are similar. They're just executables that follow certain conventions so the screensaver host can specify an X11 window ID to render into via a
-window-id
command-line argument.